Definitions for callosity

callosity cal·los·i·ty

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

Callosity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 429 anagrams from letters in callosity (acillosty).

Definitions for callosity

noun

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

Origin of callosity

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

Examples for callosity

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for callosity
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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