A protective, epidermal thickening derived from the stratum corneum and found in high friction areas (such as the foot sole of a dog).
While there is a hereditary component to tori, this does not explain all cases. Tori tend to appear more frequently during middle age of life; the torus palatinus is more commonly observed in females, but this is not the case with the torus mandibularis.
One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke.
A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.
The American singer Tori Amos was born in 1963.
A region of Georgia, in the central part of the country, bordered by Imereti and Kartli in the north and Meskheti and Trialeti in the south.
Borrowed from Japanese 取り, from 取る (toru, “take, pick up”).
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