callus

Etymology

From Latin callum (“hard skin”).

noun

1. A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
   Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 17
2. The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
3. (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
4. (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).

verb

1. (intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.