Callus

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 8

(kal'-us). I. A callosity; hardened and thickened skin. 2. The new growth of incomplete o eous ti ue that surrounds the ends of a fractured bone, during the proce of repair. See Callosity . C., Permanent, the permanent bond of bony union after re-absorption of the C. Provisional, or cartilage like, plastic material first thrown out. C. of Skin, induration and thickening of the skin.