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Callus   /kˈæləs/   Listen
Callus

noun
1.
An area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot).  Synonym: callosity.
2.
Bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone.
3.
(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid.





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... readily be distinguished on account of its peculiar vinous colour. The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of ...
— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart


Words linked to "Callus" :   chestnut, corn, botany, cicatrice, cicatrix, scar, indurate, clavus, enation, harden, phytology, hardening, plant process


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