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The sense that enables the texture of objects and substances to be perceived. Touch receptors occur in the skin, being concentrated in the tips of the finger in humans (see Meissner's corpuscles).
From: touch in A Dictionary of Biology »
Subjects: Psychology — Sports and Exercise Medicine.
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