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Definition of Callosities
1. callosity [n] - See also: callosity
Medical Definition of Callosities
1. Localised hyperplasia of the horny layer of the epidermis due to pressure or friction. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callosities
Literary usage of Callosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"It forms callosities over the sternum of the Camel and Dromedary, and upon the
parts of the joints (carpal and rotular) on which these useful beasts of ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... with a straight or recurved tip, sessile, entire, without callosities at base.
Upper sepal and the petals united into a hood over the lip. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"ON THE OCCURRENCE OF callosities IN CYPR.EA OTHER THAN CY. ... ero.faj, which
have the término-dorsal arches adorned with callosities. ..."
4. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"... t о/acquired character«," since the body с question in general, the remarks
of Sha. Ни shows that the callosities of the 4.1, ..."
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