Tactile
31tactile receptor — n an end organ (as a Meissner s corpuscle or a Pacinian corpuscle) that responds to light touch * * * a mechanoreceptor for the sense of touch; called also touch r …
32tactile corpuscle — n. any of various small, epidermal structures with nerve endings sensitive to touch or pressure …
33Tactile paving — A set of yellow truncated domes can be seen on the down ramp in a parking lot. Tactile paving (also called truncated domes, detectable warnings, Tactile Ground Surface Indicators, detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground… …
34tactile hallucination — Also known as tactile phantasma, haptic hallucination, touch hallucination, and hallucination of touch. The term tactile hallucination is indebted to the Latin verb tangere, which means to touch. It refers to a bodily sensation seemingly… …
35Tactile transducer — A tactile transducer or bass shaker is a device which is made on the principle that low bass frequencies can be felt as well as heard. A shaker transmits low frequency vibrations into various surfaces so that they can be felt by people. This is… …
36Tactile corpuscle — Meissner s corpuscle Sensory nerve endings for touch labeled at upper right.) Papilla of the hand, treated w …
37tactile insensitivity — The term tactile insensitivity is indebted to the Latin verb tangere, which means to touch. It was introduced in or shortly before 1995 by the American psychologists Arien Mack (b. 1931) and Irvin Rock (1922 1995) to denote a failure to… …
38tactile polyaesthesia — Also known as palihaptic phenomenon, palinaesthesia, and perseverative somaesthetic sensation. The term tactile polyaesthesia comes from the Latin verb tangere (to touch), and the Greek words polus (much, many), and aisthanesthai (to notice,… …
39Tactile Talking Tablet — A talking tactile tablet or T3 is a graphic tablet with a touch surface that can be used as an input device that uses swell paper to create 3D overlays and connects audio files to parts of the overlays.The advantage of the talking tactile tablet… …
40tactile meniscus — meniscus tactus one of the small, cup shaped, tactile nerve endings within the skin; many of them are formed by branches of a single nerve fiber, and each one is in contact with a single, modified epithelial cell called a Merkel cell. These are… …
