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Touch

Touch Touch is the sense of physical contact with living or nonliving things.

Touch is the sense of physical contact with living or nonliving things. It depends on tactile signals being picked up by mechanoreceptors in the skin and mucous membranes.

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Drafting source: U.S. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), 2026. “Touch” (D014110).
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