callus
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America, British) IPA: /ˈkæləs/
callus (plural calluses or calli)
- A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
- 2011,David Foster Wallace The Pale King, page 17:
- Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally
- 2011,David Foster Wallace The Pale King, page 17:
- 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.
- (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
- (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
- French: cal, durillon, calus
- German: Schwiele, (skin) Hornhaut, (botany) Kallus
- Italian: callo
- Portuguese: calo
- Russian: мозо́ль
- Spanish: callo
callus (calluses, present participle callusing; past and past participle callused)
- (intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.
- Italian: incallire
- Portuguese: calo
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