Assertion: callus | /r/Synonym | hyperkeratosis
Facets:
value: in medical terms
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Both corns and calluses can be called hyperkeratosis—the medical name for thick, hardened skin.
text: Synonyms for clavus include callosity, a hyperkeratotic response to trauma; corn, heloma, or a circumscribed hyperkeratotic lesion that may be hard (ie, heloma durum) or soft (ie, heloma molle); and callous, callus, or a diffusely hyperkeratotic lesion.
text: In medical terms, this callosity is known as the Hyperkeratosis.