tactile stimulus

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• tactile hallucination —    Also known as tactile phantasma, haptic hallucination, touch hallucination, and hallucination of touch. The term tactile hallucination is indebted to the Latin verb tangere, which means to touch. It refers to a bodily sensation seemingly… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• tactile insensitivity —    The term tactile insensitivity is indebted to the Latin verb tangere, which means to touch. It was introduced in or shortly before 1995 by the American psychologists Arien Mack (b. 1931) and Irvin Rock (1922 1995) to denote a failure to… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• tactile polyaesthesia —    Also known as palihaptic phenomenon, palinaesthesia, and perseverative somaesthetic sensation. The term tactile polyaesthesia comes from the Latin verb tangere (to touch), and the Greek words polus (much, many), and aisthanesthai (to notice,… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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

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• nervous system — Anat., Zool. 1. the system of nerves and nerve centers in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia. 2. a particular part of this system. Cf. autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, peripheral nervous… …   Universalium

• Caridoid escape reaction — The Caridoid Escape Reaction, also known as lobstering or tail flipping, refers to an innate escape mechanism in marine and freshwater crustaceans such as lobsters , krill, shrimp, and crayfish. It has been most extensively researched in crayfish …   Wikipedia

• Mauthner cell — The Mauthner Cells are a pair of big and easily identifiable neurons (one for each half of the body) located in the rhombomere 4 of the hindbrain in fish and amphibians that are responsible for a very fast escape reflex (in the majority of… …   Wikipedia

• inattention — Lack of attention; negligence. selective i. an aspect of attentiveness in which a person attempts to ignore or avoid perceiving that which generates anxiety. sensory i. the inability to feel a tactile stimulus when a similar stimulus, presented… …   Medical dictionary

• Procedural sedation and analgesia — Intervention MeSH D016292 Procedural sedation and analgesia previously referred to as conscious sedation is defined as a technique of administering sedatives or dissociative agents with or without analgesics to induce …   Wikipedia

• tac|tile — «TAK tuhl», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of or having to do with the sense of touch: »a tactile stimulus. SYNONYM(S): tactual. 2. having the sense of touch. 3. that can be felt by touch; tangible. SYNONYM(S): palpable: –n …   Useful english dictionary