tactile corpuscle

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noun

an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.

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Also called Meissner's corpuscle.

Origin of tactile corpuscle

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby tactile corpuscle

tactician, tacticity, tactics, tactile, tactile anesthesia, tactile corpuscle, tactile disk, tactile fremitus, tactile hair, tactile image, tactile meniscus

How to use tactile corpuscle in a sentence

Could Peso-trash be a serious threat to the lively and tactile scene down the hill?
The Second Life of San Miguel de Allende|Michele Willens|February 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These tactile projects make them “feel they can start and finish something,” she said.
Italian Organization Barrique Rehabilitates Wine Casks To Make Furniture And Benefit Rehabilitation Facility|Sarah Begley|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places.
How We Lost Bookshops Thanks to Amazon and Publishers|Tim Waterstone|July 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things.
How We Lost Bookshops Thanks to Amazon and Publishers|Tim Waterstone|July 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Tactile and open, she makes you feel both important and protective.
The Woman Who Could Bring Down Cameron|Peter Jukes|May 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
This is an expression which indicates the amount of hemoglobin in each red corpuscle compared with the normal amount.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A single platelet lying upon a red corpuscle may easily be mistaken for a malarial parasite (Plate VI).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Soon, dark-brown granules derived from the hemoglobin of the corpuscle make their appearance within it.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

Medical definitions for tactile corpuscle

tactile corpuscle

n.

Any of numerous minute oval end organs of touch in sensitive skin, as in the palms, fingertips, and soles of the feet.Meissner's corpuscle

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