What is "clavus"

Clavus \Cla"vus\, n. [L., a nail.] A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

n. A callous growth, especially on the foot; a corn.

n. a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes [syn: corn]

Clavus may refer to:

• Claudius Clavus, a 15th-century Danish cartographer
• Clavus : a genus of gastropods in the family Drilliidae
• the plant disease ergot;
• the Roman clavus, a reddish-purple stripe on garments that distinguished members of the senatorial and equestrian orders; see laticlave and angusticlavia;
• a shooting pain in the forehead, associated with hysteria, also called clavus hystericus;
• a corn (medicine), such as formed on the toes
• the pseudo-tail of the sunfish.
• in Hemiptera a usually narrow strip of the hemelytron adjacent to the scutellum

Clavus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.