Callus vs Tallus - What's the difference?
callus | tallus |
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 callus and tallus
is that callus is a hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use while tallus is an alternative spelling of talus.As a verb callus
is to form such hardened tissue.callus
English
(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