Callus Definition

kăləs
calluses
noun
calluses
A localized thickening and enlargement of the horny layer of the skin.
American Heritage Medicine
The hard substance that forms at the break in a fractured bone and serves to reunite the parts.
Webster's New World
A hardened, thickened place on the skin.
Webster's New World
A disorganized mass of cells that develops over cuts or wounds on plants, as at the ends of stem or leaf cuttings.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
calluses
To develop or cause to develop a callus.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Callus

Noun

Singular:
callus
Plural:
calli, calluses

Origin of Callus

  • Latin masculine of callum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin callum.

    From Wiktionary

Callus Sentence Examples

  • She'd buried them under the callus she'd grown around her emotions.

  • When not too thick callus protects the skin from further damage.

  • The foot may develop callus over sites that are taking extra pressure, eg from ill fitting footwear.

  • In the case of the more delicate plants, the formation of roots is preceded by the production from the cambium of the cuttings of a succulent mass of tissue, the callus.

  • In Nereocystis and Macrocystis a zone of tubes occurs, which present the appearance of sieve-tubes even to the eventual obliteration of the perforations by a callus.

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Words Starting With

CCACAL

Words Ending With

SUSLUS

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