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Recent Examples of glabrousGenetically identical neurons that form Meissner corpuscles for picking up vibrations in glabrous skin, for example, also form lanceolate endings for detecting hair movement in hairy skin.—Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025 The result was a cityscape of relentless sheen, façades as glabrous and ageless as a starlet’s brow.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025 Well, not spotted per se, but definitely glabrous and glaucous.—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024 Rather than bronzed and glabrous Malibu lifeguards, the striders here are Great Britain’s finest young (male) athletes readying themselves for the 1924 Olympics.—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2022 In 100 clean-shaven men direct measurement of the area of glabrous skin on the forehead and calvaria was found to be proportional to that of the hairy skin on the lips, cheeks, chin and neck.—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glabrous
hairless
Adjective
There was a valley of veins moving over his hands, blue rivers poking underneath his hairless arms.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
Social media users on both Reddit and X have shared unsettling photos that show the rodents with raw, hairless growths spreading across their faces and bodies.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Aug. 2025
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