| tactile fremitus | Vibration felt with the hand on the chest during vocal fremitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bronchial fremitus | Adventitious pulmonary sounds or voice sounds perceptible to the hand resting on the chest, as well as by the ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vocal fremitus | The vibration in the chest wall, felt on palpation, produced by the spoken voice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericardial fremitus | Vibration in the chest wall produced by the friction of opposing roughened surfaces of the pericardium. See: pericardial rub. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rhonchal fremitus | Fremitus produced by vibrations from the passage of air in the bronchial tubes partially obstructed by mucous secretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural fremitus | Vibration in the chest wall produced by a friction rub resulting from the rubbing together of the roughened inflamed opposing surfaces of the pleura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hydatid fremitus | The peculiar trembling or vibratory sensation felt on palpation of a hydatid cyst. Synonym: Blatin's syndrome, hydatid fremitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subjective fremitus | Vibration felt within the chest by the patient himself, when humming with the mouth closed; or fremitus felt when there is a rough, pericardial or pleural friction rub, particularly when pain is minimal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tussive fremitus | A form of fremitus similar to the vocal, produced by a cough. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fremitus | <clinical sign> A tremor vibration in any part of the body that is detectable by palpation. (07 Apr 1998) |
| Merkel's tactile cell | A specialised tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterised by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte. Synonym: meniscus tactus, Merkel's corpuscle, Merkel's tactile cell, Merkel's tactile disk, tactile disk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Merkel's tactile disk | A specialised tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterised by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte. Synonym: meniscus tactus, Merkel's corpuscle, Merkel's tactile cell, Merkel's tactile disk, tactile disk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tactile | Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." . "Tactile qualities." . <physiology> Tactile sense, the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. "The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm." (H. N. Martin) Origin: L. Tactilis, fr. Tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F. Tactile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tactile agnosia | The inability to recognise objects by touch, in the presence of intact cutaneous and proprioceptive hand sensation; caused by lesion in the contralateral parietal lobe. Synonym: astereognosis, stereoagnosis, stereoanesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tactile anaesthesia | Loss or impairment of the sense of touch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tactile cell | One of the epithelioid cell's of a corpusculum tactus. Synonym: touch cell. (05 Mar 2000) |