Verruca

Verruca
: A wart by another name, a local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a human papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation). Warts that occur on the hands or feet are called common warts. A wart on the sole of the foot is a plantar wart. Genital (venereal) warts are located on the genitals and are transmitted by sexual contact. The word "wart" is from Old English and far back as the 8th century referred to a wart. The name "verruca" is Latin for wart. A common wart is a "verruca vulgaris". A wart in medicine is also sometimes called by its Spanish name, "verruga".
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A flesh-colored growth characterized by circumscribed hypertrophy of the papillae of the corium, with thickening of the malpighian, granular, and keratin layers of the epidermis, caused by human papilloma virus; also applied to epidermal verrucous tumors of nonviral etiology. SYN: verruga, wart. [L.]
- v. digitata a wart in which the papillae project like fingers; they occur in groups, often on the scalp. SYN: digitate wart.
- v. filiformis a wart composed of a single or many greatly elongated papillae; appears more commonly on the face and neck. SYN: filiform wart.
- v. peruana, v. peruviana SYN: verruga peruana.
- v. plana a smooth, flat, flesh-colored wart of small size, occurring in groups, seen especially on the face of the young; often associated with common warts of the hands, due to human papilloma virus, commonly, types 3 and 10. SYN: flat wart, plane wart, v. plana juvenilis.
- v. plana juvenilis SYN: v. plana.
- v. plana senilis SYN: actinic keratosis.
- v. plantaris SYN: plantar wart.
- seborrheic v. SYN: seborrheic keratosis.
- v. senilis SYN: actinic keratosis.
- v. simplex SYN: v. vulgaris.
- v. vulgaris a keratotic papilloma of the epidermis which occurs most frequently in young persons as a result of localized infection by human papilloma virus, usually types 2 and 4; the lesions are of variable duration, eventually undergoing spontaneous regression, and are both exophytic and endophytic, with hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, hypergranulosis, koilocytosis, and papillomatosis. SYN: common wart, infectious wart, v. simplex, viral wart.

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ver·ru·ca və-'rü-kə n, pl -cae -(.)kē a wart or warty skin lesion

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n. (pl. verrucae) see wart.

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ver·ru·ca (və-rooґkə) gen. and pl. verruґcae [L.] wart.

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  • verruca — s.f. [lat. verrūca ]. (med.) [escrescenza cutanea a carattere iperplastico, di natura virale, frequente sul dorso delle mani e sulle dita] ▶◀ porro …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • verruca — 1560s, from L. verruca “wart” (see VARY (Cf. vary)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Verruca — Ver*ru ca, n.; pl. {Verruc[ae]}. [L. Cf. {Verrugas}.] 1. (Med.) A wart. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) A wartlike elevation or roughness. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • verruca — verruca. См. врожденные бородавки. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Verrūca — (lat.), Warze. Verrucae pulmonum, so v. w. Lungenknoten …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Verrūca — (lat.), die Warze; V. carnosa, die Feigwarze; verrukös, warzig …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Verruca — Verruca, lat., Warze; verrncös, warzig …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • verruca — ► NOUN (pl. verrucae or verrucas) 1) a contagious wart on the sole of the foot. 2) (in medical use) a wart of any kind. ORIGIN Latin …   English terms dictionary

  • verruca — [və ro͞o′kə] n. pl. verrucae or, sometimes, verrucas [və ro͞o′sē] [L, WART] 1. WART 2. a wartlike elevation, as on a toad s back verrucose [ver′oo kōs΄] adj. verrucous [ver′ookəs] …   English World dictionary

  • verruca — ver·rù·ca s.f. 1a. CO piccola escrescenza cutanea di forma tondeggiante, spec. di origine virale 1b. TS med. ipertrofia circoscritta delle papille del derma, ricoperta da epidermide ispessita 2. TS bot. piccola protuberanza che si forma su… …   Dizionario italiano

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