glabrous

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They, too, are found primarily in the glabrous skin on the fingertips and eyelids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Meissner’s corpuscles, found in glabrous skin, are rapidly adapting, encapsulated receptors that detect touch, low- frequency vibration, and flutter.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2015

The face, after all, includes another glabrous surface of the body, so cooling it with water might help stave off exhaustion.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2012

The common form has the stems hairy downward.—Wet places, N. Eng. to Del.; rare.—Var. críspa, Benth., is a glabrous or glabrate form, with lacerate-dentate and crisped leaves.—Ditches,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa