glabrous
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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
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
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
Erect, soft-pubescent when young, soon nearly glabrous; leaves of radical shoots narrowly oblong, the cauline oblong-linear, 4–6´´ long; inflorescence loose and diffuse; fruiting calyx glabrous.—Dry and rocky soil, Long Island to Ky., and southward.
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 Asa Gray
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