Such a case seems to be fundamentally one of fetichism on a tactile basis, and thus forms a transition between the stuff-fetichisms and the complete perversions of sexual attraction toward animals.
In part, also, we have a sexual perversion of tactile sensibility, for in a considerable proportion of these cases it is the touch sensations which are potent in arousing the erotic sensations.
Most every artist has a strong consciousness that there is a very manifest relation between his emotional and mental conditions and his tactile sense, that is his highly developed sense of feeling at the finger tips on the keyboard.
In addition to the eyes and the olfactory circle on the head scattered tactile papillae are found on the ectoderm.
The shrew, having finished the food left for it, was noticed moving about the terrarium, sniffing and testing objects with its tactile snout, obviously hungry and searching for more food.
If startled by visual or tactile stimuli, the little skink may lunge forward through the slit shell, with a sudden straightening of its body, and rush away for several inches.
He figured out how to grip simple Martian tools, threading his tactile members through the holes in their handles; but complicated devices of the same origin seemed more of a puzzle to him than to the rest of us.
The physical proximity involved in tactile sensations is, however, but the symbol of the intensity of the reactions to contact.
The feet have become simply locomotive members, because they are those of the sex; but the hands have become tactile members, because they are those of the encephalic animal.
Feeling associated with motion is called touch; this condition of the organ the tactile sense.
The lips are tactile organs upon the threshold or brink, as it were, of the gustatory sense.
Thus, there are tactile organs which are subservient to the gustatory sense, in biting, chewing, and swallowing.
The tactile sense is by no means different from that of feeling; it is only the combination of feeling with motion.
Could the limbs therefore divide into motor and tactile members, the conceivable sum total of perfection must be attained.
The tongue is still to be regarded as an organ of touch, though one in which the flesh or muscle has gained a mastery over the bones, while in the true tactile organ the bones determine the principal forms and functions.
The number of the sensorial organs is 5, and they thus stand according to their genetic development one above the other: Tactile sense or Skin.
The perception of forms is based upon the form that resides in the tactile organ itself.
The Annulate animals must represent the developmental stages of the tegument, while the viscera make a retrograde step--Tactile animals.
The Insect has moreover a spirit of motion or versatility of the tactile sense, which is displayed in the representation of symmetrical figures.
The oral cavity also consists, properly speaking, of mere tactile organs, which have been repeated in the head.
The integument has, besides the nerves of the tactile papillæ, vascular and motor nerves.
And the reference to "touch" in the quotation just made will remind the reader of the important part played by the tactile sense in Jefferies' aesthetic appreciations.
It was proved to demonstration that the fineness or coarseness of the ridges in different persons had no effect whatever on the delicacy of their tactile discrimination.
After numberless observations, I have thus far met with nine principal varieties of curvature according to which the tactile furrows are disposed upon the inner surface of the last phalanx of the fingers.
Physonectae; similar to the siphons but without a mouth, and purely tactile in function, hence sometimes termed dactylozoids.
Each palpacle is a tactile filament, very extensile, without accessory filaments or nematocysts.
It is perfectly true that, at the same moment, we may discover by touch that there is only one tactile table.
This makes us declare the two visual tables an illusion, because usually one visual object corresponds to one tactile object.
But the mere fact that we are able to infer what our tactile sensations would be shows that it is not logically necessary to assumetactile qualities before they are felt.
Experience has taught us that where we see certain kinds of coloured surfaces we can, by touch, obtain certain expected sensations of hardness or softness, tactile shape, and so on.
This power of the blind person is developed only after a long period of learning, and depends on the appreciation of very delicate tactile impressions.
I must point out, moreover, that the method of deciding by means of a pair of compasses gives information only with regard to one side of the tactile sense.
Griesbach,[186] using a well-known method for estimating tactile discrimination, found that the sense of touch is not more acute in the blind than in normal persons.
Other forms of tactile corpuscles may be studied in the tongues of frogs, ducks, or geese.
Tactile end organs may be studied in the lip or finger tips, taste buds in the papilla foliata of the rabbit’s tongue, and Pacini’s corpuscles are well seen in the mesentery of a thin cat.
Helen Keller indeed, although blind, was able to learn to speak by the education of the tactile motor sense.
The hand is the instrument of the mind and the agent of the will; consequently the tactile motor sense is intimately associated in its structural representation in the brain with every other sense.
By placing the hand on the vocal instrument she appreciated by the tactile motor sense the movements associated with phonation and articulation.
Helen Keller by means of association tracts connecting them with the tactile motor central stations.
The tactile motor sense by education replaced in her the auditory and visual senses.
But the tactile motor sense is the active sense that waits upon and contributes to every other sense.
Slight disturbance of tactile sensibility in the paralyzed limbs; marked disorder of position sense and gross disturbance of stereognostic sense.
There was anesthesia to pain and heat, as well as in bones and joints, along with the tactile anesthesia.
Meantime, there was no disorder of sensation whatever except that the ulnar border of the right hand showed a hypobaresthesia, and there was a disturbance of tactile discrimination and absolute astereognosis in the hands.
The man was unable to localize light tactile stimuli accurately.
Tactile sensations, on the contrary, were almost intact except for a slight diminution over the feet and the external aspects of the lower legs.
Outward irritation by the acoustic, optic or tactile avenues would bring out spasms in the legs, always more markedly on the right side than on the left.
Hysteria was the diagnosis preferred to rheumatism, despite the fact that examination at the Jena Hospital failed to show any disorder in pain or tactile sense.
Examined July 24, in addition to the paraplegia were found tactile and algesic hypesthesia of the legs with preservation of deep sensibility.
There was an analgesia of the skin of the whole body, with a hypesthesia for tactile stimuli on the left side.
Tactile sense was everywhere normal, but the pain sense was increased.
Inaccurate statements in response to tactile tests were made, apparently on account of lack of understanding.
Nor was the tactilesensation absolutely nil, as it could be got with a flat finger on the upper arm and thigh.
Tactile anesthesia reached the fourth dorsal root-level, except that the perineoscrotal region and the penis were somewhat sensitive.
This shows thattactile impulses from the skin take a share in generating the guiding sensation.
But both in the bird and in the fish tactile and muscular impressions, especially the latter, come into play in the mechanism of equilibrium.
In the disease above mentioned, however, tactile impressions may be nearly normal, but the guiding sensation is weak and inefficient, owing to the absence of impulses from the muscles.
Pacinian corpuscles, which are believed to be modified tactile bodies, favours this supposition.
There is, then, immanent in the tactile sensations during sleep, a tendency to visualize themselves and enter in this form into the dream.
Among the American Indians the tactile kiss is, for the most part, unknown, though here and there, as among the Fuegians, lovers rub their cheeks together.
The Catholic Church has always recognized the risks of vuluptuous emotion involved in tactile contacts, and the facility with which even the most innocent contacts may take on a libidinous character.
Such sensations, of course, cannot be termed specifically sexual, though they help to furnish the tactile basis on which the specifically sexual sensations develop.
The salutation on an olfactory basis may, indeed, be said to be more general than the salutation on a tactile basis on which European handshaking rests, each form involving one of the two most intimate and emotional senses.
In disentangling the phenomena of tactile sensibility ticklishness has been selected for special consideration as a kind of sensation, founded on reflexes developing even before birth, which is very closely related to sexual phenomena.
The first more highly organized sense to arise on the diffused tactile sensitivity of the skin is, in most cases, without doubt that of smell.
The kiss may be said to be a development proceeding both from the olfactory and the tactile bases, with perhaps some other elements as well, and is too complex to be regarded as a phenomenon of either purely tactile or purely olfactory origin.
The answer which I suggest is that an intimate connection exists throughout the animal world between mental development and the power of grasping an object all round, so as to know exactly its shape and its tactile properties.
These visual, auditory, motor or tactile images crowd the stream of consciousness as it sweeps inward to the brain.
The Greek "discus-thrower" is the idealized embodiment of a typical kind of athlete, a conception resulting from countless visual and tactile sensations.
But this is pure sensorium verse, the report of retinal, auditory or tactile images, and nothing more.
He gets pleasure from the sheer muscular activity, and from histactile sense of the bronze or steel as it penetrates the softer wood.
The precise point at which he becomes conscious of employing words no doubt varies with the individual, and depends upon the relative balance of auditory, visual or tactile images in his mind.
If he is a passionate tennis player, a thousand motor-tactile memories are stirred by the sight of the racquet.
No fewer than 1684, or one in ten, of the persons interrogated, had had visual and auditory and even tactile hallucinations, realistic human phantoms, and other apparitions.
True crepitation is recognizable by the characteristic vibration which is interpreted by tactile sense.
The pubic hairs which clothe the mons Veneris are also delicate organs of the sex-sense, and so are the tactile hairs about the mouth.
Moreover, these tactile and prehensile organs are also very widely found among the higher plants, especially the climbing plants (vines, bryony, etc.
Further, these special sense-organs could not have been mere tactile hairs, but must have possessed some special function, and their structure must have been compatible with that function.
The whole of this flat upper surface is one large sense-organ of a striking character, thus forming a great contrast to the convex under surface, which is remarkably free from tactile spines or special sense-organs.
With Meryon thetactile perception was a sixth sense.
His slow, defective vision, then, may have been his salvation; he seems to rely as much on his delicate tactilesense as on his eyes.
The vivid appeal to our tactile sense, the life communicating movement, is always there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tactile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
