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

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

Perennial, erect, slightly downy below, viscid above; leaves narrowly lanceolate; flowers in loose panicles; calyx short, glabrous; petals red, 4-lobed, lobes linear.—Moist or marshy places; New Eng. and N. Y.

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