| TLC | tender loving care; thin-layer chromatography; total L-chain concentration; total lung capacity; tot... |
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| TM | technology management; tectorial membrane; temperature by mouth; temporalis muscle; temporomandibula... |
| TOE | tender on examination; tracheoesophageal; transesophageal echography; transferred nuclear Overhauser... |
| TP | tender point |
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| 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 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) |
| 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) |
| tenderling | 1. One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. 2. <zoology> One of the first antlers of a deer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tenderloin | A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tenderness | The condition of being tender. Pencil tenderness, strictly localised tenderness, elicited by pressure with the rubber tip of a pencil, e.g., in cases of incomplete or subperiosteal fracture. Rebound tenderness, tenderness felt when pressure, particularly pressure on the abdomen, is suddenly released. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenderness to palpation | <clinical sign> A physical examination finding that is characterised by the development of pain with the application of light touch (palpation) to a specific area. See: palpation. (13 Jan 1998) |
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given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" sensitive: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" young and immature; "at a tender age" something used as an official medium of payment attendant: someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another affectionate: having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" bid: a formal proposal to buy at a specified price easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" offer or present for acceptance physically untoughened; "tender feet" car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water offer: propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" make a tender of; in legal settlements a boat for communication between ship and shore crank: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots" ship that usually provides supplies to other ships make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat"
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| tender loving care |
considerate and solicitous care; "young children need lots of TLC"
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a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" warm compassionate feelings affection: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" softheartedness: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
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The car immediately behind a steam locomotive that carries fuel for the firebox and water for the boiler.
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The innermost of the three meninges investing the brain and spinal cord. It is a delicate vascular connective tissue membrane that is closely adherent to the neural surface. Together with the arachnoid comprises the leptomeninges.
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| tender | ship that usually provides supplies to other ships |
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| tender | a boat for communication between ship and shore |
| tender | car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water |
| tender | a formal proposal to buy at a specified price |
| tender | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
| tender | something used as an official medium of payment |
| tender | make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer |
| tender | make a tender of |
| tender | offer or present for acceptance |
| tender | propose a payment |
| tender | (of plants) not hardy |
| tender | having or displaying warmth or affection |
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