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
A large callosity forms on the shoulders of the regular Unyamwesi porters, from the heavy weights laid on them.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
What presumption can arise from the event of the water ordeal, in which no callosity of hands, no bravery, no skill in arms, could be in any degree serviceable?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
There was a small callosity on the pilaster adjacent to his hand, and he scratched at it intently with a long forefinger.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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
I am confident he never had one of those callosities upon the inner side of his right thumb which come of the lower thole of a scythe-snath, after a week's mowing.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
Lip embracing the column below, with 2 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
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