Achilles tendon, the strong prompinent tendon at the back of the heel, connecting the calf muscles to the heel bone. Tapping the Achilles tendon normally produces an ankle jerk, or reflex. If this reflex is missing or if it is exaggerated, disease or injury of the nerves of the leg muscles or the spinal cord may exist. The name derives from homer’s Iliad, in which Achilles was vulnerable only in his heel, the one part of his body which remained dry when his mother dipped him in the River Sytx in the belief that this would render him impervious to injury.
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