Definitions for callosities

callosities cal·los·i·ty

Spelling: [kuh-los-i-tee]
IPA: /kəˈlɒs ɪ ti/

Callosities is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 827 anagrams from letters in callosities (aceiillosst).

Definitions for callosities

noun

  1. a callous condition.
  2. Botany. a hardened or thickened part of a plant.
  3. Pathology. callus (def 1a).

Origin of callosities

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

Examples for callosities

They attributed the halting in the hind legs of a lamb to a callosity formed around the spinal cord.

He wonders why a bare patch, and not a callosity, should not result from this innate, apparently hereditary habit.

In the case of the Macartney marriage I suspect this to have been the only kind—a kind of callosity, protective and numbing.

We can allow for the immense confusion at Washington—the senselessness of red tape—the callosity of politicians.

This is accompanied with a thickening of the layers of the cuticle, which is termed a “callosity,” or “corn.”

Besides causing the animal considerable pain, chafing, if long continued, leads to the formation of a callosity.

A callosity is a circumscribed thickening of the stratum cornium.

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

To a youth afflicted with the callosity of sentiment, this quaint and pregnant saying appeared merely base.

On the knee is a callosity, or round patch of bare hardened skin.

Word Value for callosities
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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