tactile corpuscle
noun
                                
              
          
                                                      : one of the numerous minute bodies (as a Meissner's corpuscle) in the skin and some mucous membranes that usually consist of a group of cells enclosed in a capsule, contain nerve terminations, and are held to be end organs of touch                                      
                
called also touch corpuscle
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