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Touch (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 8
Preferred form: Touch
Used for/see from:
  • Tactile Sense
  • n: Sense of Touch
  • n: Sense, Tactile
  • n: Senses, Tactile
  • n: Tactile Senses
  • n: Taction
  • n: Tactions
  • n: Touch Sense
  • n: Touch Senses

differentiate from TOUCH PERCEPTION: TOUCH takes place in the skin and mucous membranes, TOUCH PERCEPTION takes place in the brain

Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.

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