Medical Definition of Tactile 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 Tactile Corpuscle

tactical maneuver
tactical manoeuvre
tactical realism
tactical warning
tactically
tactician
tacticians
tacticity
tactick
tacticks
tactics
tactile
tactile agnosia
tactile anaesthesia
tactile cell
tactile corpuscle (current term)
tactile disk
tactile elevations
tactile fremitus
tactile hair
tactile hallucination
tactile hyperesthesia
tactile image
tactile meniscus
tactile organ
tactile property
tactile sensation
tactile sense
tactilely
tactilities

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