tactile fremitus

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The vibration felt by a hand placed on a chest during vocal fremitus.

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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
Special nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
The constant wash of animal reactions was missing, as was the vague tactile awareness of his PK.
Deathworld|Harry Harrison
And this time it was accompanied by what I can only describe as a vivid tactile hallucination.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories|Algernon Blackwood
Their eyes, too, are less perfectly developed, and the tactile proboscis of their free-moving relatives is absent.
The Sea Shore|William S. Furneaux
It certainly possesses very elaborate tactile organs about the head.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1900|Various