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What is a tender abdomen?
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What MD elicits: When your physician presses on the abdomen, if patient complains pain at that spot then it is called tender, it is physical sign the doctor elicits, if patient comes with a complaint of pain at that location then it is symptom.
Answered 7/5/2012
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