Sentence examples for callosity from inspiring English sources

Callus, also spelled callous, also called callosity or tyloma, in dermatology, small area of thickened skin, the formation of which is caused by continued friction, pressure, or other physical or chemical irritation.

To heal from the pressure-induced mistakes Scott made on the final four holes — he handed the victory to Ernie Els — would require a strengthening of his spine, a callosity in his will.

Several species of passion-flower (Passiflora) and cruciferous plants (Streptanthus) decrease their attractiveness to ovipositing female butterflies (thus reducing predation from butterfly larvae) by producing pigmented callosities that mimic the eggs of those insects.

The dromedary has horny pads on the chest and knees that protect it from searing desert sand when it lies down; the Bactrian camel lacks these callosities.

We could identify her by the special callosities on her face and marks on her tail.

The whales are identifiable by patterns of growths on their skin called callosities.

Baboons, for the record, do not have nests or dens but spend the night perched in trees on their callosities, built-in baboon Barcaloungers, which Dr. Sapolsky describes as "gun-metal gray calluses on their rear ends that allow them to fall asleep sitting up on a branch without their tushes falling asleep".

These callosities are colonized by pale, licelike creatures in patterns discernable even at a distance.