callosity

[ kuh-los-i-tee ]

/ kəˈlɒs ɪ ti /

a callous condition.

Botany. a hardened or thickened part of a plant.

Pathology. callus(def 1a).

Origin of callosity

1375–1425; late Middle English calosite < Late Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callōs(us) callous + -itās -ity

A callosity is a circumscribed thickening of the stratum cornium.

Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry |Maximilian Stern
On the knee is a callosity, or round patch of bare hardened skin.

Unexplored Spain |Abel Chapman
He wonders why a bare patch, and not a callosity, should not result from this innate, apparently hereditary habit.

The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 |Various
To a youth afflicted with the callosity of sentiment, this quaint and pregnant saying appeared merely base.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 |Robert Louis Stevenson

A callosity forms and suppuration occurs under it, the pus escaping through a small hole in the centre.

Manual of Surgery |Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

callosity

/ (kəˈlɒsɪtɪ) /

hardheartedness

another name for callus (def. 1)

callosity

[ kə-lŏs′ĭ-tē ]

A localized thickening and enlargement of the horny layer of the skin. callus keratoma poroma tyloma