Sensory skin

Japanese: 感覚皮膚 - かんかくひふ
Sensory skin

…The cutaneous ridges maintain a moderate degree of flexibility through sweat, enhancing the sensitivity of the tactile receptors inside the skin and providing a non-slip effect on the skin surface. Skin with cutaneous ridges (ridge skin) is therefore sometimes called tactile skin (or sensory skin) or friction skin. Cutaneous ridges are not only found on the hands and feet of humans, but are also found on the palms and soles of the feet of primates in general, indicating that cutaneous ridges are a characteristic of primate evolution that developed in connection with arboreal life, where the hands and feet needed to grasp branches. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "sensory skin" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…皮膚隆線は汗によって適度な柔軟性を保ち,皮膚内部にある触覚受容器の感受効果を高めるとともに,皮膚表面にすべりどめの効果をも与えている。皮膚隆線のある皮膚(隆線皮膚)はそのために,触覚皮膚(あるいは感覚皮膚)とか,摩擦皮膚と呼ばれることがある。 皮膚隆線はヒトの手足だけでなく,広く霊長類全般の手のひら,足の裏に見られ,皮膚隆線が,手足で枝をつかむ必要のある樹上生活との関連で発達してきた,霊長類進化上の一つの特徴であることを物語っている。…

※「感覚皮膚」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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