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tactile

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tactile
of, relating to, affecting, or having a sense of touch

tactile [′tak·təl]
(physiology)
Pertaining to the sense of touch.


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Over such trivialities as these many a valuable hour may slip away, and the traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
The hands were always malformed; and though some surprised me by their unexpected human appearance, almost all were deficient in the number of the digits, clumsy about the finger-nails, and lacking any tactile sensibility.
The greater part of the structure was the brain, sending enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacles.
 
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