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 sense of honour without callosity is never blunted for such attacks.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
There is one on the Shameen bridge who has a callosity like a horn on his forehead, with which he strikes the pavement and produces an audible thump.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The Cavernous Ulcer is that the Entrance of which is streight and the bottom broad wherein there are many Holes fill'd with malignant Sanies, without any callosity or hardness in its sides.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
A bursa may form beneath a callosity, and if it becomes inflamed may cause considerable suffering; if suppuration ensues, a sinus may form, resembling a perforating ulcer of the foot.
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
This habit will account for the callosities already mentioned.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
Yellowish-brown lice and, less frequently, barnacles grow on the callosities.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
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