noun
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hardheartedness
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another name for callus
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Etymology
Origin of callosity
1375–1425; late Middle English calosite < Late Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callōs ( us ) callous + -itās -ity
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There is Van Halen, named after a callosity shaped like a guitar.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
On the hind feet, at the upper end of the metatarsus, there is a callosity three inches long and three quarters of an inch broad, destitute of hair.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
The callosity of Smollett's midshipman, who spat in the pressed man's face when he dared to complain of his sufferings, and roughly bade him die for aught he cared, was characteristic of the service.
From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
He added, as a well-known fact in surgery, that the callosity which forms over a fractured bone is so dense that the limb will never break again at that particular place.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
A callosity forms and suppuration occurs under it, the pus escaping through a small hole in the centre.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Marine experts will compare its genetic material and the patches of raised tissue on its head, known as callosities, against a vast library of genetic data from right whales.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
They developed a method of identifying individual whales in part by the raised and roughened patches, called callosities, growing in unique patterns on their skin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
Both natural and unnatural markings are useful: propeller scars, but also callosities, patches of rough skin that are white because they are infested with cyamids, licelike parasites.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
Lip sac-shaped, sessile, entire, and without callosities at base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Sometimes black often brown or mottled with regions of white on chin and belly; patches of yellowish to pink callosities and lice encrusting the snout in what has been called a "rock garden."
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
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