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Callus   Listen
noun
Callus  n.  
1.
(Med.)
(a)
Same as Callosity.
(b)
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
2.
(Hort.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.






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... ends of conducting cells gives rise to the so-called trumpet-hyphae. In Nereocystis and Macrocystis a zone of tubes occurs, which present the appearance of sieve-tubes even to the eventual obliteration of the perforations by a callus. While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage. Secondary growth in thickness is effected ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Callus" :   callosity, scar, clavus, phytology, plant process, indurate, cicatrice, corn, chestnut, enation, botany, hardening



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