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Callus   Listen
noun
Callus  n.  
1.
(Med.)
(a)
Same as Callosity.
(b)
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.
2.
(Hort.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.






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"Callus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the powdered root (which, when broken, is white within, and full of a slimy juice), if dissolved in water to a mucilage, is far from contemptible for bleedings, fractures, and luxations, whilst it hastens the callus of bones under repair. Its strong decoction has been found very useful in Germany for tanning leather. The leaves were formerly employed for giving a flavour ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... covered with cinereous tomentum. Callus of the head black, long, slender, entire; antennae red, black towards the tips, angle of the third joint very small; thorax reddish on each side in front of the forewings; abdomen with glaucous tomentum towards ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... found, to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them, after which they seldom lived six hours; for those spots they called the tokens were really gangrene spots, or mortified flesh, in small knobs as broad as a little silver penny, and hard as a piece of callus[264] or horn; so that when the disease was come up to that length, there was nothing could follow but certain death. And yet, as I said, they knew nothing of their being infected, nor found themselves so much as out of order, ...
— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe



Words linked to "Callus" :   chestnut, corn, indurate, plant process, botany, cicatrix, harden, clavus, cicatrice, scar, callosity, enation, phytology



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