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glabrous

adjective as in bald

adjective as in hairless

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Meissner corpuscle These nerve receptors lie just beneath the epidermis of glabrous skin, where they detect movement across the skin and fluttering touch.

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Try applying the samples on both the glabrous skin of the lips and the hairy skin of the forearm.

When she meets him, Elsa has the impression "that his body was more like that of a sea lion" – Finn is entirely glabrous.

Stigma terminal, broad and depressed.—Low glabrous perennial; leaves all radical, compound.

Its presence in the Tongan data does not seem to be representative of other Polynesians, who are generally described as more glabrous.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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