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Callosity

noun
(pl. callosities)
1.
An area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot).  Synonym: callus.
2.
Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness.  Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness.






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"Callosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... frankness of callosity, and could recount his evil deeds and confess his vices with hilarity and detail, and was prompt to take his part in a lark, and was a remarkably hard hitter, and never shrank from the brunt of the row; and with these fine ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... appearance of a small callosity; the skin is thickened, polished and horny. Exceptionally, however, occurring on parts that are naturally more or less moist, as between the toes, maceration takes place, and the result is the so-called soft corn. The dorsal aspect of the toes is the common site for the ordinary ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... to die famishing; bitter to see his children famish. It was bitter for him to be a beggar, a liar and a knave. Nay, if that dreary Greenland-wind of benighted Want, perennial from sire to son, had frozen him into a kind of torpor and numb callosity, so that he saw not, felt not, was this, for a creature with a soul in it, some assuagement; or the ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... also occurs in patients suffering from glycosuria, and is usually associated with arterio-sclerosis—local or general. Perforating ulcer is met with most frequently under the head of the metatarsal bone of the great toe. A callosity forms and suppuration occurs under it, the pus escaping through a small hole in the centre. The process slowly and gradually spreads deeper and deeper, till eventually the bone or joint is reached, and becomes implicated in the destructive process—hence the term "perforating ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... fractured bones to occur (where union does take place) and the cost of treatment together with the uncertainty of even partial recovery, makes for an unfavorable outcome. When the best possible results succeed treatment, a large callosity is formed and movement of the pastern joint is restricted. Lameness, though not intense, in the case referred to, where one bone was broken, was permanent and the subject was out of ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix



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