Noun: tactual sensation
- The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure, heat or pain
"The surgeon's tactual sensation was crucial for performing delicate procedures";
- tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness
- The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
"The blind reader relied on tactual sensation to read braille";
- touch, touch sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
Derived forms: tactual sensations
Type of: perception, somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer]