Tactile


Having to do with touch. For example, tactile signs of disease are signs that are perceptible by touch, such as roughness of the skin.

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  • Tactile device

    A mechanical instrument that makes use of touch to help individuals who have certain disabilities, such as deaf-blindness, to communicate.

  • Taenia

    In medicine, taenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy, taenia refers to a band or a structural line and applies to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. In Latin, taenia means a ribbon or tape. Taenia is also spelled tenia.

  • Taenia asiatica

    A species of tapeworm found in Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China, where rural people eat uncooked home-produced pork-containing organs.

  • Taenia saginata

    The beef tapeworm. The most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw or rare beef. Can grow to be 12-25 feet (3.6-7.5 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the African tapeworm.

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    A tapeworm that can parasitize people and can be contracted from undercooked or infested pork. Also known as the armed tapeworm, the pork tapeworm, and the measly tapeworm.


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