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glabrous

adjective as in bald

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Meissner corpuscle These nerve receptors lie just beneath the epidermis of glabrous skin, where they detect movement across the skin and fluttering touch.

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Try applying the samples on both the glabrous skin of the lips and the hairy skin of the forearm.

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When she meets him, Elsa has the impression "that his body was more like that of a sea lion" – Finn is entirely glabrous.

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Aug., Sept.—Leaves and sheaths very hairy, or nearly glabrous; the former about 1° long, not rigid; panicle 1–2° long, soon diffuse.

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Its presence in the Tongan data does not seem to be representative of other Polynesians, who are generally described as more glabrous.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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