glabrous

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

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

Named after Angelo Ruffini, the Ruffini ending is a class of slowly adapting mechanoreceptor thought to exist only in the glabrous dermis and subcutaneous tissue of humans.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 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

Stem glabrous, tall, very leafy; leaves mostly alternate, linear to filiform and entire, or the lowest lanceolate and serrulate; scales filiform-attenuate.—Dry plains, Mo. to Neb., south and westward.

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