| 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 | Trigger points |
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| TP | tender point |
| 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) |
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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-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 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) |
| absorbent points | Cones of paper or paper products used for drying or maintaining medicaments during root canal therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acupuncture points | Designated locations along nerves or organ meridians for inserting acupuncture needles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| aplanatic points | <microscopy> The two conjugate points for which a completely spherical glass lens is aplanatic. They lie on the principal axis, both within the sphere. (05 Aug 1998) |
| Capuron's points | The iliopubic eminences and the sacroiliac joints, constituting four fixed point's in the pelvic inlet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardinal points | The four point's in the pelvic inlet toward one of which the occiput of the baby is usually directed in case of head presentation: two sacroiliac articulations and the two iliopectineal eminences corresponding to the acetabula, six point's of a compound optical system: the anterior focal point, the posterior focal point, the two principal point's, and the two nodal point's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Valleix's 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) |
| Gauss points | <microscopy> The points on the optical axis of a lens through which the principal planes pass. Origin: Named after Karl Friedrich Gauss. (20 Mar 1998) |
| gutta-percha points | <dentistry> Cones of a gutta percha compound used for filling root canals in conjunction with a cement, paste, or plastic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| congruent points | The point in each retina referred to the same external stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjugate planes/points | <microscopy> Planes (or points) that are in focus relative to each other. In a microscope adjusted for Koehler illumination, there are two sets of conjugate planes: the aperture planes and the field planes. See: field planes, Koehler illumination (05 Aug 1998) |
| points, conjugate | <microscopy> The pair of points on the principal axis of a mirror or lens so located that light emitted from either point will be focused at the other. Related points in the object and image are located optically so that one is the image of the other. See: polarizing element (05 Aug 1998) |
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