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Tactile sensation   /tˈæktɪl sɛnsˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Tactile sensation

noun
1.
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.  Synonyms: feeling, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation.  "The surface had a greasy feeling"





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"Tactile sensation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the optic thalamus the fibres proceed to the cortical sensory centres, that for tactile sensation being situated in the post-central (ascending parietal) gyrus; that for muscular and stereognostic sense lying probably in the adjacent portions of the ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles


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