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Tender Loving Care (2026 film)

Tender Loving Care (2026 film) is a comedy drama by Mike Leigh, likely his last, starring Kate O'Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey, and Paul Jesson; it won the Golden Shell at the 74th San Sebastián Festival and opened December 4, 2026 via Bleecker Street.

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Horton Foote, starring Robert Duvall as recovering country singer Mac Sledge; it won Oscars for Best Actor and Original Screenplay.

Tender Prey

Tender Prey is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on Mute Records in 1988 and best known for the song "The Mercy Seat".

Tenderloin, San Francisco

The Tenderloin is a dense, low-income San Francisco neighborhood bounded by Market, Van Ness, Powell, and Post streets, known for historic SRO hotels, the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot, the world's first legal transgender district, and persistent open-air drug markets.

Tendinopathy

Tendinopathy, also called tendinitis or tendinosis, is painful tendon degeneration from overload, affecting Achilles, patellar, rotator cuff, elbow, and gluteal tendons; treated with loading exercise, injections, and shockwave therapy.

Tendo Systems Inc.

Tendo Systems Inc. is a private American healthcare-software company founded in 2020 by siblings Dan and Jen Goldsmith and based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, building a digital engagement platform connecting patients, clinicians, and caregivers.

Tendon

Tendon (sinew): fibrous connective tissue linking muscle to bone, mainly type I collagen (65-80% dry mass), with tenocytes, hierarchical bundles, energy-storing vs positional types, slow healing, and age-related stiffening.

Tendon cell

Tendon cell (tenocyte), the main tendon fibroblast, about 95% of tendon cells; spindle-shaped, produces type I collagen ECM, marked by scleraxis and tenomodulin, responds to mechanical load, and is the target of tendon cell therapy.

Tendon reconstruction

Tendon reconstruction is an orthopedic and hand surgery procedure that rebuilds a damaged tendon with a graft, usually when repair is impossible more than 3 weeks after injury.

Tendon repair

Tendon repair, including flexor tendon repair, is the surgical treatment to restore a severed or injured tendon, using core and epitendinous sutures with early motion.

Tendon transfer

Tendon transfer is a surgical procedure that reroutes a working muscle-tendon unit to a new insertion, restoring movement lost to nerve palsy, tendon rupture, or paralysis.

Tendon-driven actuation

Tendon-driven actuation is a robotics drive method that transmits power from remote actuators to joints through flexible cables that pull but cannot push, used in dexterous hands and surgical instruments.

Tendon-driven continuum mechanisms

A tendon-driven continuum mechanism is a continuously bending robotic structure shaped by tendons pulled from actuators outside its body, used in surgical and inspection robots.

Tendon-driven mechanism

A tendon-driven mechanism, also called cable-driven or wire-driven actuation, is a robotic transmission in which remote actuators pull flexible cables or tendons routed through pulleys or sheaths to joints.

TENDRE

TENDRE (テンダー) is the solo project of Japanese multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Taro Kawahara, who debuted with the EP Red Focus in 2017 and made his major debut in 2021.

Tendril

A tendril is a slender, thread-like organ of climbing plants, derived from a modified leaf or shoot, that coils around a support so the plant can climb.

Tendril Networks

Tendril Networks was a Boulder, Colorado company building home energy management and utility analytics software; it raised about $157 million and merged into Uplight in 2020.

Tenduruk Dagi

Tenduruk Dagi (Tendürek Dağı) is a 3,514 m shield volcano with a caldera in eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, 50 km south of Ararat; last erupted 1855, with ongoing subsidence and hydrothermal activity.

Tenebrae

Tenebrae is the service of Matins and Lauds for the last three days of Holy Week in the Roman rite, marked by the gradual extinguishing of candles.

Tenebrae (film)

Tenebrae (Tenebre, US title Unsane) is Dario Argento's 1982 Italian giallo in which a killer imitates novelist Peter Neal's book in Rome; a self-reflexive, once video-nasty-listed film now rated among Argento's best.

Tenebrionidae

Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles (family Latreille, 1802), is a hyperdiverse beetle family of over 30,000 species, dominant in deserts via water-conserving physiology, and includes the stored-grain pest Tribolium.

Tenebrism

Tenebrism, from the Italian tenebroso meaning darkened, is a painting style in which details like faces and hands are picked out by highlights against a predominantly dark setting.

Tenecteplase

Tenecteplase (TNKase, Metalyse) is a modified recombinant tissue plasminogen activator thrombolytic, approved in 2000 for STEMI, given as a single bolus, with 14-fold higher fibrin specificity than alteplase.

Teneligliptin

Teneligliptin (Tenelia, MP-513) is an oral DPP-4 inhibitor by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma for type 2 diabetes, first approved in Japan in 2012, dosed 20-40 mg once daily, with no dose adjustment needed in renal or hepatic impairment.

Tenement

A tenement is a multi-story building divided into separate apartments, in America meaning cheap, crowded housing for the urban poor, and in Scotland the common term for blocks of flats.

Tenente revolts

The Tenente revolts were a series of military uprisings in Brazil between 1922 and 1927, led by junior army officers against the oligarchic First Republic.

Tenentismo

Tenentismo was a Brazilian movement of junior army officers who revolted against the Old Republic between 1922 and 1927 and helped bring Getúlio Vargas to power in 1930.

Ténéré

Ténéré (Tenere, Tuareg for desert) is a hyperarid Saharan sand plain east of the Aïr Mountains in Niger, with 20–25 mm annual rain, live linear dunes, and the 7.7-million-ha Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, on the World Heritage in Danger list since 1992.

Tenericutes

Tenericutes (Murray 1984), equivalent to Mycoplasmatota, is a bacterial phylum of wall-less, plasma-membrane-bounded cells; its sole class is Mollicutes (mycoplasmas), small-genome commensals and parasites.

Tenerife

Tenerife, largest and most populous Canary Island (962,343 residents, 2025), home to Spain's highest peak Teide (3,718 m), Teide National Park (UNESCO 2007), conquered from the Guanches in 1496, and a major tourism destination with 7.56 million visitors in 2025.