Soft spot in body can mean literal and figurative things. Literally, it means a tender, mushy, or vulnerable area on the body that is soft to touch or painful when pressed, such as a bruise, swelling, abscess, or area of infection that is soft and fluctuant, indicating pus underneath. It can also refer to baby's fontanelle on head, which is a soft spot where skull bones have not fused. In anatomy, soft spot can mean any area where tissue is soft, such as fatty tissue, or where muscle is weak. Figuratively, soft spot in body can mean a sensitive or ticklish area, or an area that is vulnerable to injury. In medical terms, a soft spot in body might indicate edema, where pressing leaves indentation, or lipoma, a soft fatty lump under skin. Doctors might say there is a soft spot in abdomen meaning area that is not firm, possibly hernia. In everyday language, my soft spot hurts means tender area. So soft spot in body means either normal soft tissue, a tender painful area, or in infants fontanelle, and context determines whether it is normal anatomy, injury, or medical condition needing evaluation, especially if accompanied by pain, swelling, or fever.
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