tactual

Example Sentences

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There are tactual vibrations which do not belong to skin-touch.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

The parrot is the most intelligent of birds, and its tactual power is also greatest.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

He affirms that the image of an object which the blind acquires by touch readily divests itself of the characters of tactual sensation and differs profoundly from these.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

The elephant is the most sagacious of quadrupeds — its tactual range and skill, and the consequent multiplication of experiences, which it owes to its wonderfully adaptable trunk, being the basis of its sagacity.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

There are observations which associate impaired tactual sense and impaired perception of posture and movement of a limb with injury of the central region of the cortex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various