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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.
verb
1.
Cause a callus to form on.
2.
Form a callus or calluses.





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"Callus" Quotes from Famous Books



... sufficient for the reduction of these fractures, which may be removed in ten or twelve days, when the preparatory callus has acquired some consistence. One only out of twenty dogs that were brought to me with fractures of the extremities, in the year 1834, died. Two dogs had their jaws fractured by kicks from horses, and lost several of their teeth. In one of them the anterior part of the jaw was ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


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