A 16-year-old patient is seen in the emergency room for a knee injury that happened during a basketball game. Diagnostic tests reveal torn cords of fibrous connective tissue that connect muscles to bones. The nurse knows that the patient had sustained a tear of the:a) Bursa. b) Tendon. c) Ligament. d) Fascia.

B. Tendon

Explanation:

A tendon is a fibrous connective tissue which attaches muscle to bone. A tendon serves to move the bone or structure. Tendons may also attach muscles to structures such as the eyeball. While a ligament is a fibrous connective tissue which attaches bone to bone, and usually serves to hold structures together and keep them stable.

A bursa is a tiny fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues of the body. The plural of bursa is bursae. There are 160 bursae in the body. The major bursae are located adjacent to the tendons near the large joints, such as the shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees.

A fascia is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs. From the various definitions given above shows that the tendon is the correct answer to the question asked.

tendon

Explanation:

Bursae is fluid filled sac that act as a cushion between bones, tendon,joint and muscle.

Tendon is a type of fibrous connective tissue that connects a muscle to a bone.

Ligament is bundle of fibrous connective tissue that connects bone to another bones

Fascia is soft connective tissue that is located beneath the skin, such as collagen, that attaches, stabilizes and separates muscles and other internal organs.

So according to the above definitions, Tendon is the correct option  

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