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Definition of Tactile

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch. "A tactile reflex"

2. Adjective. Producing a sensation of touch. "The tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair"

Definition of Tactile

1. a. Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

Definition of Tactile

1. Adjective. tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch ¹

2. Adjective. used for feeling ¹

3. Adjective. of, or relating to the sense of touch ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tactile

1. pertaining to the sense of touch [adj]

Medical Definition of Tactile

1. Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." . "Tactile qualities." . Tactile sense, the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. "The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm." (H. N. Martin) Origin: L. Tactilis, fr. Tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F. Tactile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactile

tactical air control centers tactical call sign tactical call signs tactical intelligence tactical maneuver tactical manoeuvre tactical realism tactical warning tactically tactician

tacticians tacticity tactick tacticks tactics tactile (current term) tactile agnosia tactile anaesthesia tactile cell tactile corpuscle

tactile disk tactile elevations tactile fremitus tactile hair tactile hallucination tactile hyperesthesia tactile image tactile meniscus tactile organ tactile property

Literary usage of Tactile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"At least three forms may be distinguished (Liepmann), (1) loss of memory pictures of tactile sense proper, (2) inability to fuse the single impressions ..."

2. The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (1912)
"The limitation of the exercises of the tactile sense to the cushioned tips of the fingers, is rendered necessary by practical life. ..."

3. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Anne E. George, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The limitation of the exercises of the tactile sense to the cushioned tips of the fingers, is rendered necessary by practical life. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In the freshwater Tricladida the anterior margin of the head is richly innervated, and is beset with a special row of tactile cells which contain no ..."

5. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"The structures especially devoted to the exercise of tactile sensibility are minute bulbous organs developed upon the terminal extremities of the nerve ..."

6. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"They are regarded by Merkel as the simplest form of a tactile end organ, ... These enlargements or " tactile cells " occur in the groin of the guinea-pig ..."

7. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1899)
"tactile Cells. 2. tactile Corpuscles. 3. End-Bulbs. The tactile cells are found within the deeper layers of the epidermis or the adjacent stratum of the ..."

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