tactile corpuscle


noun
  1. an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.

Origin of tactile corpuscle

1
First recorded in 1870–75

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