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sulphinide (medicine) and callus (iou)


sulphinide (medicine)


sulphinide
<chemistry> A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates).

Origin: Sulpho- + amine + anhydride.

Source: Websters Dictionary


callus (iou)



callus noun & verb. M16.
[Latin (more commonly callum).]
A. noun.
A thickened and hardened part of the skin or soft tissue, a callosity. M16.
E. Linklater Their noses were unremarkable, being small and without sufficient callus to give them a definite shape. fig.: O. W. Holmes Editors have..to develop enormous calluses at every point of contact with authorship.
Medicine. The bony healing tissue which forms around the ends of broken bone. L17.
Botany. A hard formation of tissue; new tissue formed over a wound. L19.
b. verb intrans. Form a callus, become hardened (over). Cf. CALLOUS verb. M19.
Also callum noun LME-L18.