| tender | 1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. 2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. "Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces." (L'Estrange) 3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. "The tender and delicate woman among you." (Deut. Xxviii. 56) 4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. "The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." (James v. 11) "I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper." (Fuller) 5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. "I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!" (Shak) 6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; with of. "Tender of property." "The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion." (Tillotson) 7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. "You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good." (Shak) 8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. 9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. "Things that are tender and unpleasing." 10. Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel. Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like. Synonym: Delicate, effeminate, soft, sensitive, compassionate, kind, humane, merciful, pitiful. Origin: F. Tendre, L. Tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See Thin. 1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. 2. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. Origin: From Tend to attend. Cf. Attender. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tender-hearted | Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. Ten"der-heartedly, Ten"der-heartedness, "Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them." (2 Chron. Xiii. 7) "Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted." (Eph. Iv. 32) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tender lines | Bands of cutaneous hyperesthesia associated with acute or chronic inflammation of the viscera. Synonym: Head's zones, tender lines, tender zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tender points | Various point's in the course of a nerve, pressure upon which is painful in cases of neuralgia; these point's are: 1) where the nerve emerges from the bony canal; 2) where it pierces a muscle or aponeurosis to reach the skin; 3) where a superficial nerve rests upon a resisting surface where compression is easily made; 4) where the nerve gives off one or more branches; and 5) where the nerve terminates in the skin. Synonym: tender points. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tender zones | Bands of cutaneous hyperesthesia associated with acute or chronic inflammation of the viscera. Synonym: Head's zones, tender lines, tender zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brain-heart infusion agar | A medium used for the isolation of fastidious microorganisms, especially fungi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| constant infusion pump | An electrically driven device for delivery from a reservoir of a constant, often very small, volume of solution over a prolonged period of time. (05 Mar 2000) |
| home infusion therapy | Use of any infusion therapy on an ambulatory, outpatient, or other non-institutionalised basis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infusion | The therapeutic introduction of a fluid other than blood, as saline solution, solution, into a vein. (18 Nov 1997) |
| infusion-aspiration drainage | A type of drainage in which antibiotics are continuously infused into a cavity at the same time fluid is being drained (aspirated) from the cavity. Synonym: drip-suck irrigation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infusion graft | Transplantation by injection of a suspension of cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infusion pumps | Fluid propulsion systems driven mechanically, electrically, or osmotically that are used to inject (or infuse) over time agents into a patient or experimental animal; used routinely in hospitals to maintain a patent intravenous line, to administer antineoplastic agent and other drugs in thromboembolism, heart disease, diabetes mellitus (insulin infusion systems is also available), and other disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infusion pumps, implantable | Implanted fluid propulsion systems with self-contained power source for providing long-term controlled-rate delivery of drugs such as chemotherapeutic agents or analgesics. Delivery rate may be externally controlled or osmotically or peristaltically controlled with the aid of transcutaneous monitoring. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insulin infusion systems | Portable or implantable devices for infusion of insulin. Includes open-loop systems which may be patient-operated or controlled by a pre-set program and are designed for constant delivery of small quantities of insulin, increased during food ingestion, and closed-loop systems which deliver quantities of insulin automatically based on an electronic glucose sensor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| intravenous infusion | <pharmacology> The giving of antibiotics, blood products, anti-cancer drugs or nutrients into a patients vein over a prolonged period of time. (30 Mar 1998) |