CALLUS
\kˈaləs], \kˈaləs], \k_ˈa_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of CALLUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
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form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused"
By Princeton University
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(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
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form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Same as Callosity
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The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
By Oddity Software
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Same as Callosity
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The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
By Noah Webster.
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The bony deposit formed between and around the broken ends of a fractured bone during normal healing.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A growth of shell-like material within the umbilicus of a shell; the soft tissue that forms over the cut or damaged surface of any stem or branch.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The bony matter, thrown out between the fractured extremities of a bone, which acts as a cement, and as a new bony formation. The words are, likewise, used occasionally in the same sense as Callosity.
By Robley Dunglison
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Any callosity.
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The osseous material by which union between ends of a fractured bone is effected. At first it is cartilage like (Provisional callus.), but this is afterward re-absorbed and replaced by the Permanent c., forming permanent union of bones.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A hardened and thickened portion of skin.
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A spindle-shaped swelling which surrounds the ends of a fractured bone during the first weeks following the injury; the agent in the process of repair. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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