Medical Definition of Touch corpuscle

1. One of numerous oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin, especially those of the fingers and toes; they consist of a connective tissue capsule in which the axon fibrils terminate around and between a pile of wedge-shaped epithelioid cells. Synonym: corpusculum tactus, Meissner's corpuscle, oval corpuscle, touch corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch Corpuscle

touch-tone dialling
touch-type
touch-typed
touch-types
touch-typing
touch-typist
touch-up
touch a chord
touch a nerve
touch a raw nerve
touch and go
touch base
touch bases
touch cell
touch cloth
touch corpuscle (current term)
touch down
touch football
touch hole
touch holes
touch labor
touch modality
touch move
touch of the tar brush
touch of the tarbrush
touch off
touch on
touch panel
touch perception

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