Meristem vs Callus - What's the difference?
meristem | callus |
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace The Pale King , page 17:
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
(botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
To form such hardened tissue
As nouns the difference between meristem and callus
is that meristem is meristem (zone of active cell division) while callus is a hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.As a verb callus is
to form such hardened tissue.meristem
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Derived terms
* meristematic, meristematically * adaxial meristem * apical meristem * intercalary meristem * lateral meristem * plate meristemcallus
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(wikipedia callus)Noun
(en-noun)- Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally