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tactile disk in Medicine. tactile disk n. A cup-shaped tactile nerve ending that is in contact with a single modified epithelial cell. Also called Merkel's corpuscle, tactile meniscus.
1 The four major types of tactile mechanoreceptors include: Merkel's disks, Meissner's corpuscles, Ruffini endings, and Pacinian corpuscles.  Merkel's disk are slow-adapting, unencapsulated nerve endings that respond to light touch; they are present in the upper layers of skin that has hair or is glabrous.