glabrousness
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Glabrousness () is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes, or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of a plant or animal, or be due to loss because of a physical condition, such as alopecia universalis in humans, which causes hair to fall out or not regrow.
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It sits within the topics Dermatologic terminology and Plant morphology.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Glabrousness () is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes, or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of a plant or animal, or be due to loss because of a physical condition, such as alopecia universalis in humans, which causes hair to fall out or not regrow.
==In botany== thumb|Herniaria glabra|Smooth rupturewort (Herniaria glabra) - a creeping plant with glabrous leaves and stems
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