callus

callus

English

Etymology

From Latin callum (“hard skin”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæləs/

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• Rhymes: -æləs
• Homophone: callous

Noun

callus (plural calluses or calli)

1. A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
   • 2011,David Foster Wallace The Pale King, page 17:

     Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally

2. The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
3. (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
4. (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).

Translations

hardened part of the skin

Arabic: جُسْأَة‎ f (jusʾa) Gulf Arabic: فالول‎ (fālūl) Armenian: կոշտուկ (hy) (koštuk) Bashkir: һөйәл (höyäl) Bulgarian: мазо́л (bg) m (mazól) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: call (ca), cal·lus (ca) m, durícia (ca) f, mula (ca) f Cebuano: lupak, kubal Chinese: Mandarin: 胼胝 (zh) (piánzhī), 老繭／老茧 (zh) (lǎojiǎn), 繭子／茧子 (zh) (jiǎnzi) Czech: mozol (cs) m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: eelt (nl) n Esperanto: kaluso Finnish: känsä (fi) French: cal (fr) m, durillon (fr) m, calus (fr) m Galician: amata f, calo (gl) m, talo (gl) m Gallurese: gaddu, incàddu Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Schwiele (de) f, (skin) Hornhaut (de) f, (botany) Kallus (de) m Greek: κάλος (el) m (kálos), τύλωμα (el) n (týloma) Ancient: τύλη f (túlē) Hebrew: גרומת‎ f (grómet), קלוס‎ (he) m (kálus) Hungarian: bőrkeményedés (hu) Icelandic: sigg n Italian: callo (it) m Japanese: 胼胝 (ja) (タコ, たこ, tako) Khmer: ក្រិន (km) (krən), ពកស្លា (pɔɔk slaa) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: callum n Macedonian: жуљ m (žulj) Malay: please add this translation if you can Maori: pātio Navajo: kébąąh ntłʼizgo dah naaznilígíí (on the foot), kébąąh ntłʼizgo daditánígíí (on the foot) Norwegian: Bokmål: træl m Occitan: bast m, barda f Old English: wearr m Persian: پینه‎ (fa) (pine), شغه‎ (šoğe), کلخچ‎ (fa) (kalaxč) Plautdietsch: Schwiel f Portuguese: calo (pt) m Quechua: khacha Romanian: bătătură (ro) Russian: мозо́ль (ru) m (mozólʹ) Sardinian: Campidanese: callu Logudorese: addu Sassarese: gaddu Serbo-Croatian: žulj (sh) m Sicilian: caḍḍu m Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: callo (es) m Swedish: valk (sv) c Tagalog: lipak, kalyo Thai: ผิวหนังที่ด้านหนา (pĭw năng têe dâan năa) Turkish: nasır (tr) Ukrainian: мозо́ль m (mozólʹ) Vietnamese: chai (vi) Volapük: honaskin Welsh: caleden f

material of repair in fractures of bone

Finnish: uudisluu, kallus (fi)

botany: new formation over the end of a cutting

Finnish: haavasolukko, kallus (fi)

Verb

callus (third-person singular simple present calluses, present participle callusing, simple past and past participle callused)

1. (intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.

Translations

to form hardened tissue

Chinese: Mandarin: 長繭／长茧 (zhǎng jiǎn) Finnish: känsittyä Italian: incallire Maori: pātio Portuguese: calo (pt) m

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