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Definition of Tactual exploration

1. Noun. A method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactual Exploration

Literary usage of Tactual exploration

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... more practised in tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

2. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"If the right hand alone were sensitive and the left insensitive then tactual exploration of the left by the right would yield only perception of the ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"It is a current belief that the fingers of the blind, more practiced in tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"It is a current belief that the fingers of the blind, more practiced in, tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

5. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"... without there occurring simultaneous changes, definitely related to one another, between the feelings which tactual exploration gives and the feelings ..."

6. Outlines of Psychology: With Special Reference to the Theory of Education by James Sully (1885)
"... the range of this tactual exploration would be greatly enlarged. Our imaginary blind child walking about the room and feeling out towards this and that ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... more practised in tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

8. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"If the right hand alone were sensitive and the left insensitive then tactual exploration of the left by the right would yield only perception of the ..."

9. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"It is a current belief that the fingers of the blind, more practiced in tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

10. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"It is a current belief that the fingers of the blind, more practiced in, tactual exploration than the fingers of those who can see, acquire greater ..."

11. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"... without there occurring simultaneous changes, definitely related to one another, between the feelings which tactual exploration gives and the feelings ..."

12. Outlines of Psychology: With Special Reference to the Theory of Education by James Sully (1885)
"... the range of this tactual exploration would be greatly enlarged. Our imaginary blind child walking about the room and feeling out towards this and that ..."

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