Glabrous Skin
In varying degrees most mammals, have some skin areas without natural hair. On the human body, glabrous skin is external skin that naturally is hairless. It is found on the ventral portion of the fingers, palmar surfaces of hands, soles of feet, lips, labia minora, and glans penis.
Tinea corporis is a mycosis that targets glabrous skin.
There are four main types of mechanoreceptors in the glabrous skin of humans; Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel's discs, and Ruffini corpuscles.
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