How exactly do tendons and ligaments attach bone-to-bone and muscle-to-bone?

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Are they like “glued” with super strong biological adhesive, or are they somehow like integrally “meshed” together at the connection points?

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As I understand it, tendons are bundles of nested fibres. So you have the big bundle is the tendon. This is made up of a bunch of ‘tertiary fibre bundles’. Each of these is made up of a bunch of smaller ‘secondary fibre bundles’. And so on, until you get to a tonne of tiny fibres. These fibres are essentially woven in to the structure of the bone.

Maybe the picture here will help you imagine it:

https://www.britannica.com/science/tendon