Tenderness (medicine)

In medicine, tenderness is pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.

Rebound tenderness is an indication of peritonitis.

Symptoms and signs: general / constitutional (R50–R61, 780.6–780.9)
Temperature heat: Fever (Fever of unknown origin, Drug-induced fever, Postoperative fever) • Hyperhidrosis (e.g., Sleep Hyperhidrosis; "Sweating") • Hyperpyrexia • Hyperthermia cold: Chills
Aches/Pains Headache • Chronic pain • Cancer pain
Malaise and fatigue Atrophy (e.g., Muscle Atrophy) • Debility (or Asthenia) • Lassitude • Lethargy • Muscle tremors • Tenderness
Miscellaneous Flu-Like Symptoms


Famous quotes containing the word tenderness:

    “I feel sure that he never had an impure fancy in his mind, or a faulty wish in his heart. His tenderness has surpassed the tenderness of woman; and yet when an occasion came for showing it, had all the spirit of a hero.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)