Lexic.us

Definition of Tactile property

1. Noun. A property perceived by touch.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactile Property

Literary usage of Tactile property

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

1. The London Medical Gazette (1831)
"... and the want of these is in a great measure compensated for by the exquisite delicacy of the tactile property of the integument. It has been said that, ..."

2. Idiocy: And Its Treatment by the Physiological Method by Edward Seguin (1866)
"For our practical object, all the senses are considered as modifications of the tactile property, receivers of touch in various ways. ..."

3. Idiocy: And Its Treatment by the Physiological Method by Edward Seguin (1907)
"For our practical object, all the senses are considered as modifications of the tactile property, receivers of touch in various ways. ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1836)
"Its complex movements are governed by one pair of nerves, and its tactile property by another; and, its being endowed with the power of propagating the ..."

5. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University by Denison University, Denison Scientific Association (1910)
"Just as the tactile property is due to a peculiar arrangement of molecules whose essential nature consists in the putting forth of certain forms of activity ..."

6. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1847)
"... where they compensate for the loss of the tactile property consequent on the hard covering of the exterior of the month in these mail-checked fishes. ..."

7. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1846)
"... where they compensate for the loss of the tactile property consequent on the hard covering of the exterior of the mouth in these mailed-cheeked fishes ..."

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