Indeed it does.
The body has a great number of different "sense of touch" cells. Some sense pressure, some sense texture, pain, heat etc.
The skin where the sensory nerveendings are situated is divided into regions (called dermatomes) depending on what spinal nerve it is connected to. The amount and type of sensory nerveendings in any given area determines roughly how sensitive it is.
The lips, eyelids, fingers and feet are examples of areas that are rich with sensory nerveendings, whereas the back, the front of the thighs and outside of the upper arms are much less so.
Opthamologists specialize in vision (sense of sight), audiologists in hearing (sense of hearing), dermatologists in touch (sense of touch), and sommeliers in taste (sense of taste).
Sense of fell is related to sense of touch.
Touch massage can have an effect for pain relief, but it might not work on everyone. Everyone has a different body type, so the effects of touch massage might differ between different people.
Touch is actually not considered to be a chemical sense. Touch is actually considered to be a physical type sense.
It uses its great sense of smell, hearing and touch to locate food and its claws and teeth to get the food.
The parietal lobe is primarily responsible for processing the sense of touch. This lobe integrates information from various sensory modalities to help us perceive touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. It plays a key role in spatial awareness and processing sensory input from the environment.
Hypoesthesia is the term of a diminished sense of touch.
Your sense of touch gets stimulated when nerve endings in your skin detect pressure, temperature, or vibration. These nerve impulses then travel to your brain, where they are processed and interpreted as different sensations such as heat, cold, pain, or texture.
A sense appeal is when you let someone touch you ;)
Damage to the somatosensory cortex, located in the parietal lobe of the brain, may result in a lack of sensation in the body. This area is responsible for processing tactile information and interpreting sensory input from different parts of the body.
The sense of touch is the first sense to be fully developed in humans. It begins to develop in the womb and is already functional at birth.
The sense of touch is used when handling something. It allows us to feel the texture, weight, temperature, and shape of objects.