glabrous

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They are found in both glabrous and hairy skin.

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

Stems 1° high; glabrous or nearly so; heads ½´ high, rather few, racemose or spicate; outer scales lax, foliaceous; rays purple; leaves linear, entire.—Mo. to Tex., thence to Car. and Ga. § 2.

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