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What does tenderness mean?

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Noun
  1. a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
  2. concern for the feelings or welfare of others
  3. pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
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Paul is friendly with the Leivers family of Willey Farm, and a tenderness grows between him and the daughter Miriam, a soulful, shy girl.
Localized rebound tenderness signifies only limited and localized transmural inflammation.
If perforation occurs in the stomach or intestines, fever and abdominal pain and tenderness may develop.
He also had tenderness bilaterally over the distal radius and ulna, and anterior tibia.
The radiant beauty of the score, and the warm tenderness at the heart of it, are very moving.
My hands still bleed if I move my fingers too quickly, but the doc says the raw skin and general tenderness will gradually go away.

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