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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tennis-arm.

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Examples

  • Last year, Mishra wrapped up a study where he used platelet-rich plasma to treat the 20 worst tennis-elbow injuries he'd culled from more than 100 volunteers.

    Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May Get You Back in the Saddle 2008

  • Last year, Mishra wrapped up a study where he used platelet-rich plasma to treat the 20 worst tennis-elbow injuries he'd culled from more than 100 volunteers.

    Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May Get You Back in the Saddle By Marty Graham 2008

  • Especially, inviting him to drive on the rise, getting the tennis-elbow into play.

    Archive 2004-10-01 Chirayu 2004

  • Especially, inviting him to drive on the rise, getting the tennis-elbow into play.

    Cricket: 3rd Test from tomorrow. Chirayu 2004

  • D., the chairman of sports physiotherapy at the University of Queensland in Australia and senior author of the review, said in an e-mail response to questions, "There is a tendency" among tennis-elbow sufferers, "for the majority (70-90 percent) of those following a wait-and-see policy to get better" after six months to a year.

    NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2010

  • Smith said he was pleased to have come through his comeback game from a nagging tennis-elbow injury successfully - he contributed a run-a-ball 65 in an opening stand of 136 with man-of-the-match Hashim Amla, who smashed an ODI career-best 140.

    News24 2008

  • “It wasn’t about the tennis-elbow business, was it?”

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • “It wasn’t about the tennis-elbow business, was it?”

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • It’s like tennis-elbow but not — its video game-hand.

    Buzzine » Matthew Perry Interview 2009

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