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callosity

[kuh-los-i-tee]
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noun, plural cal·los·i·ties.
  1. a callous condition.
  2. Botany. a hardened or thickened part of a plant.
  3. Pathology. callus(def 1a).
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Origin of callosity

1375–1425; late Middle English calosite < Late Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callōs(us) callous + -itās -ity
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Examples from the Web for callosity

Historical Examples

  • A callosity is a circumscribed thickening of the stratum cornium.

    Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry

    Maximilian Stern

  • On the knee is a callosity, or round patch of bare hardened skin.

    Unexplored Spain

    Abel Chapman

  • He wonders why a bare patch, and not a callosity, should not result from this innate, apparently hereditary habit.

  • They attributed the halting in the hind legs of a lamb to a callosity formed around the spinal cord.

  • In the case of the Macartney marriage I suspect this to have been the only kind—a kind of callosity, protective and numbing.

    Love and Lucy

    Maurice Henry Hewlett

British Dictionary definitions for callosity

callosity

noun plural -ties
  1. hardheartedness
  2. another name for callus (def. 1)
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callosity in Medicine

callosity

(kə-lŏs′ĭ-tē)
n.
  1. A localized thickening and enlargement of the horny layer of the skin.callus keratoma poroma tyloma
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