In contrast to RA patients with chronic pain states who report constant high tender joint count, and high global health assessments and visual analog scale (VAS pain score, another subset of RA patients indicate good treatment effect on self-reports despite disease activity according to, for example, imaging.
At university I presented The Rattle Bag to anyone who so much as looked at me, but two have remained constant over the years: Tender is the Night, by F Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin) and JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey (Penguin), two books that languish in the shadow of better-known works.
Thank goodness, then, for our hosts' ongoing bromance; a tender, dimple-cheeked constant in a world of chaos and white truffle foam.
And children too need time and tender love, not constant measurement.
In the mid-1970s he moved south with his wife Marie - the constant subject of Heaney's passionate, tender and rueful love poems - and their children, first to a cottage in County Wicklow, and later to Dublin.
The tension between the sacred and the profane, along with the contrast of tough-guy persona and tender vocals, have been constants in his career.
Her constant subject is longing: for sex both tender and kinky but also for companionship and devotion.
David sent me tender, handmade gifts that served as constant reminders that his heart was never far; perhaps the most memorable of these was a pillowcase he created that featured a screen printed picture of his head sleeping on it.
Hartley's character is vital in This Is England: a constant background presence, providing Shaun with love, showing his tender, funny side.
The message is unmistakable: Scrutinize, critique, measure, evaluate and maintain constant surveillance over your body, and start this at the tender age of -- what, 5 or 6? Yikes.
