Sentence examples for callus from inspiring English sources
The word 'callus' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a hard, thickened patch of skin. For example, "The years of hard work left a callus on his hand."
noun
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
In some patients, pain is focused at the central core of a single callus, whereas in others the pain is more diffuse across the weight-bearing portion of the forefoot.
Shoes that provide effective arch support and have a shock-absorbing rubber sole reduce the risk of developing a callus.
An insole that absorbs shear forces inside the shoe can also reduce the risk of developing a callus and the discomfort that occurs after callus formation.
Debridement (shaving down) of the callus helps to even out the skin surface and reduce thickening and abnormal pressure distribution.
When a bone is fractured, some bone tissue adjacent to the fracture is absorbed, and a mass of tissue termed callus, at first uncalcified, makes its appearance between and around the broken ends.
This callus is proliferated from cambial cells, which lie beneath the surface of branches and are responsible for their increase in width.
He has calluses on his fingers from clicking a mouse or mice, rather, as his 24-hour video, "The Clock", is too big to be loaded onto a single computer.
He complained of getting calluses from spending so much time on his knees.
Walmart says it acted lawfully and claims to promote 160,000 people a year; Mr McMillon's box-shifting calluses make such claims a bit more convincing.Yet the international business, which he has led since 2009, is not thriving.
Calluses are usually flat and painless.
Calluses form when mild but repeated injury causes the cells of the epidermis (the outermost layer of the skin) to become increasingly active, giving rise to a localized increase in tissue.
