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
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, appressed-serrulate, shining above, beneath mostly glabrous; sterile flowers long-peduncled.—Wet grounds, Maine to the mountains of Va. June.—Fruit larger than in the last, ripening earlier in the autumn.
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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