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  • noun Plural form of callus.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of callus.

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Examples

  • PERPER: If there ` s evidence of abuse in the past, it can be shown if there are changes in the bone, what they call calluses which might indicate remote fracture.

    CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009 2009

  • A muscle-corded hand, well-furnished with sword calluses, gripped the curved ash.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

  • Quenten had not missed the sword calluses on her hands, and the easy way she wore her blade.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Quenten had not missed the sword calluses on her hands, and the easy way she wore her blade.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • There was muscle beneath the fat of good living, and old sword calluses on his hands.

    The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

  • By forming small wounds in "explants" of the stem cell tissue, scientists are able to stimulate large cell masses known as calluses, which contain the "unprogrammed" and undifferentiated cells of the plant.

    PR.com Press Releases Inc. G.S. Cosmeceutical USA 2010

  • By forming small wounds in "explants" of the stem cell tissue, scientists are able to stimulate large cell masses known as calluses, which contain the "unprogrammed" and undifferentiated cells of the plant.

    MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire 2010

  • By forming small wounds in "explants" of the stem cell tissue, scientists are able to stimulate large cell masses known as calluses, which contain the "unprogrammed" and undifferentiated cells of the plant.

    PR.com Press Releases Inc. G.S. Cosmeceutical USA 2010

  • By forming small wounds in "explants" of the stem cell tissue, scientists are able to stimulate large cell masses known as calluses, which contain the "unprogrammed" and undifferentiated cells of the plant.

    PR.com Press Releases Inc. G.S. Cosmeceutical USA 2010

  • It had been a while, actually, and on top of that I certainly had no calluses to speak of.

    Ennui Christopher Snyder 2010

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