tactile hair

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• tactile hair — noun : a hair or hairlike structure sensitive to touch occurring in various groups of animals …   Useful english dictionary

• Tactile corpuscle — Meissner s corpuscle Sensory nerve endings for touch labeled at upper right.) Papilla of the hand, treated w …   Wikipedia

• Hair — For other uses, see Hair (disambiguation). Hairy redirects here. For individuals nicknamed the Hairy , see List of people known as the Hairy. Hair Cross section of a hair Latin unguis …   Wikipedia

• tactile meniscus — meniscus tactus one of the small, cup shaped, tactile nerve endings within the skin; many of them are formed by branches of a single nerve fiber, and each one is in contact with a single, modified epithelial cell called a Merkel cell. These are… …   Medical dictionary

• Androgenic hair — Normal distribution of body (androgenic) hair in women and men …   Wikipedia

• Afro-textured hair — Prominent Ghanaian economist and author George Ayittey with natural afro textured hair. Natural or Afro textured hair is a term used to refer to the typical texture of African hair that has not been altered by hot combs, flat irons, or chemicals… …   Wikipedia

• Pubic hair — Human hair By type Lanugo · Androgenic Terminal · Vellus …   Wikipedia

• sensory hair — noun a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat • Syn: ↑whisker, ↑vibrissa • Derivationally related forms: ↑whiskery (for: ↑whisker), ↑whisker (for …   Useful english dictionary

• tactilehair — tactile hair n. Sensory hair, such as that of an insect, that responds to pressure or touch. * * * …   Universalium

• mechanoreception — See mechanoreceptor. * * * Ability to detect and respond to mechanical stimuli in one s environment. A slight deformation of a mechanoreceptive neuron causes an electric charge at its surface, activating a response. Mechanoreceptors in pain spots …   Universalium

• antenna — Synonyms and related words: aerials, barb, barbel, barbule, bedspring type, cat whisker, directional antenna, dish, doublet, feed and reflector unit, feeler, mast, mattress type, palp, palpus, reflector, rhombic antenna, scanner, strike radar… …   Moby Thesaurus