tactile sensation
Skin perceives pressure
Tactile sensation is the sense of touch—what you feel through physical contact with surfaces, textures, temperatures, and pressures.
The term appears in scientific and medical contexts: The patient reported diminished tactile sensation in her fingertips.
It encompasses everything from the brush of fabric against skin to the perception of pain or vibration.
- texturesSurface feel and appearance
- firm gripSecure manual hold
- pressureForce upon contact
- hapticsScience of touch feedback
- mechanoreceptorsSensory cells detecting pressure
touch · roughness · Meissner corpuscles · smoothness · vibrations · Pacinian corpuscles · wetness · epidermis · nerve endings · prosthetics · phantom limb · goose bumps · sensitive skin · stroke · tickle · soft · brush · nerve
tactile sensationsight
Visual perception faculty
hearing · vision · visual perception · smell · taste
tactile sensationnumbness
Loss of sensation
insensibility · anesthesia · loss of sensation · desensitization · sensory deprivation