TACTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tactile mean? 

• TACTILE (adjective)
  The adjective TACTILE has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch

2. producing a sensation of touch

  Familiarity information: TACTILE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACTILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

haptic; tactile; tactual

Context example:

a tactile reflex

Pertainym:

touch (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands))

touch (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin)

Derivation:

tactility (the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Producing a sensation of touch

Synonyms:

tactile; tactual

Context example:

the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair

Similar:

tangible; touchable (perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch)

Derivation:

tactility (the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain)

 Context examples 

Impairment of tactile sensitivity manifesting as partial loss of sensitivity to sensory stimuli.

(Hypoesthesia, NCI Thesaurus)

In this new study, they found that PIEZO2 controls tactile allodynia after a skin injury.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)

The nervous tract that carries pain, temperature, and tactile signals from the periphery to the brain.

(Antero-Lateral Ascending Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

Agents that are capable of inducing a total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensation and pain.

(Anesthetic Agent, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Consequently, the diverse manifestations of neuropathic pain have different cellular origins and therefore patients suffering from cold or tactile allodynia may be in need of different therapeutic strategies to treat their specific conditions.

(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)

A specialized tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterized by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte.

(Merkel's Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

(Esthesiometer, NCI Thesaurus)

SYN meniscus tactus, Merkel's corpuscle, Merkel's tactile cell, Merkel's tactile disk, tactile disk.

(Merkel's Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)

Not all patients experience these painful symptoms with the same level of intensity, and some react more adversely than others to cold temperatures (cold allodynia) as opposed to tactile sensations (tactile allodynia), and vice versa.

(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)

In a study of four patients with a rare genetic disorder, NIH researchers found that PIEZO2, a gene previously shown to control our sense of our bodies in space and gentle touch, may also be responsible for tactile allodynia: the skin’s reaction to injury that makes normally gentle touches feel painful.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)