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Definitions: Callus |
CallusNoun1. An area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot). 2. Bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone. 3. (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid. Verb1. Cause a callus to form on; "The long march had callused his feet". 2. Form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "callus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Etymology: Callus \Cal"lus\, noun. [Latin expression See Callous.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | A cap-like mass of callose(a substance of uncertain chemical composition)that covers the sieve plates of non-functioning sieve tubes. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Concentration of parenchymal cells around a wound. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | L. the tissue which grows over or round a wound (scar tissue ) 2. excrescence or thickening occurring at the point of union of a graft due to growth of the proliferating tissue. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A callosity or hard, thick skin; the bone-like reparative substance that is formed round the edges and fragments of broken bone. (references) |
Industry | A more or less healed over, often longitudinal injury to a tree; can be caused by bruising, fire or the like. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | 1)a callosity or hard, thick skin;2)the bone-like reparative substance that is formed round the edges and fragments of broken bone. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Players of stringed instruments such as the guitar will develop calluses on their fingers if they play frequently enough. They are a good thing in this case, because without them, playing the instruments for longer than a few minutes (or for someone who just started, a few seconds!) can be extremely painful. Sometimes a blister is produced before a callus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Callus."
Synonym: CallusSynonym: callosity (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Callus |
| English words defined with "callus": chestnut ♦ plantar wart, Porotic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "callus": Bone Regeneration, Bony Callus ♦ callus tissue ♦ embryogenesis ♦ Fracture Healing ♦ leather buffers'node ♦ target canker ♦ undifferentiated callus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "callus": Callid, Callous ♦ Porotic. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The space between thumb and forefinger and the hams of his hands were shiny with callus. |
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| "Callus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Callus" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "callus": Bony Callus ♦ callus tissue ♦ undifferentiated callus. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
callus | 222 |
callus rom | 110 |
foot callus | 31 |
callus emulator | 17 |
callus remover | 17 |
callus download rom | 13 |
callus de rom | 13 |
callus removal | 10 |
corn and callus | 9 |
callus cream | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "callus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lyth (papilloma, wart, Wen), kallo (callosity). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسيج لين, الجسأة جزء من الجسم, الدشبذ مادة طبية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мазол (callosity, corn). (various references) | |
Chinese | 老茧. (various references) | |
Czech | mozol. (various references) | |
Danish | callus (callosity), callositet (callosity), sårvæv, kallus, hård hud (callosity), barkslag (band resaw, bole scar). (various references) | |
Dutch | callus (callosity), snoeiwondgenezing (bole scar). (various references) | |
Farsi | پینه استخوانی گیاه , پینه (Bunny). (various references) | |
Finnish | koro (bole scar), kallus. (various references) | |
French | cal (cal, caliber, callosity, callous tissue, callus tissue, calorie, calvus). (various references) | |
German | schwiele (bunion, callosity, corn, weal, welt), kallus (bole scar, callosity). (various references) | |
Greek | κάλλος (bole scar), κάλοσ (corn), συνουλωτικός κάλος, σημάδι κορμού (bole scar), τύλοσ, τύλος (belaying cleat, bole scar, bunion, callous growth, clavus, cleat, corn, cornu, horn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבלת (blister, corn, verruca, wart), עור קש". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tyúkszem (corn), kérgesség (callosity), sebpara, kérgesedés, hegszövet (cicatricial tissue), heg (cicatrice, cicatrices, cicatrix, crust, scab, scar), csontheg, bőrkeményedés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | belulang (bones, raw bide). (various references) | |
Italian | callo (callosity, corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胼胝 (corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た" (corn, kite, octopus). (various references) | |
Manx | segg. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alluscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calo (callosity, corn, cutis callosa). (various references) | |
Romanian | calus, bãtãturã (callosity, corn, weft, woof). (various references) | |
Russian | мозоль (blister, bunion, corn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kvrga (knot, knurl, snag, tubercle), žulj (callosity, corn). (various references) | |
Spanish | callo (bole scar, callosity, callous tissue, callus tissue, corn). (various references) | |
Swedish | valk (a hair pad, bank, bank of rubber, callosity, flange, pad, proud seam, roll, weal), kallus (callosity). (various references) | |
Turkish | nasır (callosity, corn, splint), kırığın kaynamasına yardımcı olan madde. (various references) | |
Ukranian | кісткова мозоля, наплив (affluence, dissolve, inundation, onrush, wipe), мозоля (callosity, corn), затвердіння (calcification, callosity, congelation, consolidation, hardening, induration, solidification). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chỗ th nh chai, thể sần. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calle, callis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "callus": callused, calluses, callusing. (additional references) | |
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"Callus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acilius, Aclu, allus, ayllus, caelus, caillaux, cailles, calcu, calcus, callaps, callaus, calles, Callias, callic, callis, callls, calloo, callop, callos, callots, Callows, callum, calluos, calluse, calous, calus, cellu, celluz, celous, celsus, Cillis, cillus, colloss, Colpus, Cullum, Ecalles, Jallul, Kallas, Kallu, mallus, ocellus, pallus, Rallus, sallus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "callus" (pronounced ka"lus) |
| 5 | k a" l u s | callous. |
| 4 | -a" l u s | balas, digitalis, Gallus, malice, palace, prothallus. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sulcal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: calls, cauls, culls, scall, scull. | |
-2 letters: alls, call, caul, cull, lacs, sall, saul. | |
-3 letters: all, als, lac, las, sac, sal, sau. | |
-4 letters: al, as, la, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: callous, clausal, cullays. | |
+2 letters: bacillus, bullaces, calculus, callused, calluses, casually, causally, halluces, locustal, occlusal, scutella, silicula, skullcap. | |
+3 letters: brucellas, calculous, calloused, callouses, callously, callusing, calyculus, caudillos, caulicles, cellulase, claustral, clubhauls, fullbacks, fullfaces, molluscan, musically, pullbacks, scutellar, secularly, siliculae, siliculas, skullcaps, subcellar. | |
+4 letters: alliaceous, buckyballs, calculates, calculuses, calendulas, callousing, cancellous, cellulases, cloudlands, colleagues, cuadrillas, curveballs, fallacious, hellacious, lackluster, leucoplast, muscularly, punchballs, quillbacks, rustically, satchelful, sculptural, scutellate, sepulchral, specularly, subcellars, subglacial, subvocally, suicidally, surgically, ultraslick, umbilicals, unscalable, unsocially. | |
+5 letters: allocutions, altocumulus, animalcules, calcicolous, calculators, callipygous, callithumps, callousness, calmodulins, canaliculus, carefullest, caudillismo, caustically, chuckwallas, clamorously, collagenous, colloquials, eucalyptols, flatulences, flocculants, flocculates, lacklusters, larcenously, leucoplasts, lumbosacral, maliciously, masculinely, multicausal, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, pluralistic, precalculus, salaciously, satchelfuls, satchelsful, scutellated, subcellular, subclinical, subcultural, ultracasual, uncalloused, unclassical, unscholarly, victuallers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 6C 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. .-.. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l l u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006C 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376778788785 |
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