| 单词 | callus |
| 释义 | callus (once / 13760 pages) nv A callus is a spot where your skin becomes rough and thick. After wearing flip flops every day, all summer long, you'll probably have a callus between your toes. If you bet a blister from playing tennis or digging in the garden, it will eventually turn into a callus if you keep swinging your racquet or using your trowel. Any spot on your skin that's rubbed and irritated repeatedly becomes a callus, or a thickened patch of skin. In medicine, another kind of callus is the bony tissue that forms when a broken bone heals. Don't confuse callus with callous — which sounds the same but means "insensitive and cruel." WORD FAMILYcallus: calli, callused, calluses, callusing USAGE EXAMPLESI practiced for hours on end, to the point where I developed calluses on my fingers. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) She bent and flicked gently at the rough white calluses on his feet. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) Union Pacific spokeswoman Calli Hite says there were no injuries and that the cause of the derailment is being investigated. Washington Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1n an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) Syn|Hypo|Hyper callosity clavus, corn a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes hardening abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue 2n bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone Hypo|Hyper chestnut a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg cicatrice, cicatrix, scar a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue 3n (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid Hyper enation, plant process a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ 4v cause a callus to form on The long march had callused his feet Hyper harden, indurate make hard or harder 5v form a callus or calluses His foot callused Hyper harden, indurate become hard or harder |
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