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sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on differen…

ssions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. Dunglison.

ce or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. -- Sense organule (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.

stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.

is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine. Pope.

One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so- called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.