Callus meaning

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The hard bony tissue that develops around the ends of a fractured bone during healing.
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Undifferentiated tissue that develops on or around an injured or cut plant surface or in tissue culture.
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The hardened, sometimes sharp base of the spikelet of certain grasses.
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To form or develop such hardened tissue.
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A hardened, thickened place on the skin.
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The hard substance that forms at the break in a fractured bone and serves to reunite the parts.
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A disorganized mass of cells that develops over cuts or wounds on plants, as at the ends of stem or leaf cuttings.
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To develop or cause to develop a callus.
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The hard bony tissue that develops around the ends of a fractured bone during healing.
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To form or develop such hardened tissue.
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An area of the skin that has become hardened and thick, usually because of prolonged pressure or rubbing.
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The hard bony tissue that develops around the ends of a fractured bone during healing.
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A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
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The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
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(botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
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(intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.
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Origin of callus

Latin masculine of callum

Sentence Examples

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

  • Aphidesand may be easily penetrated by certain Fungi such as Peziza, Nectria; and when thus attacked, the repeated conflicts between the cambium and callus, on the one hand, trying to heal over the wound, and the insect or Fungus, on the other, destroying the new tissues as they are formed, results in irregular growths; the still uninjured cambium area goes on thickening the branch, the dead parts, of course, remain unthickened, and the portion in which the Fungus is at work may for the time being grow more rapidly.

  • Some plants root so freely that they need only pegging down; but in most cases the arrest of the returning sap to form a callus, and ultimately young roots, must be brought about artificially, either by twisting the branch, by splitting it, by girding FIG.

  • A canker is the result of repeated frustrated attempts on, the part of the callus to heal up a wound.

  • But the occluding callus is a mass of delicate succulent cells, and offers a dainty morsel to certain insects e.g.

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