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noun Pathology.Usually genital warts .

one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.

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Words nearby genital wart

genital phase, genital ridge, genitals, genital stage, genital tract, genital wart, genitive, genito-, genitocrural, genitofemoral, genitofemoral nerve

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Worry-wart Country Club Republicans say, “How about his father?”
Why 2016’s Hopefuls Are Hopeless|P. J. O’Rourke|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Genital mutilation is practiced in various forms across the African continent, from Nigeria to Somalia.
Egypt: Stop Mutilating Little Girls!|Bel Trew|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the limelight, every glitch and wart becomes an eyesore for an international audience.
Rio Buildings’ Collapse New Sign of World Cup Headache for Brazil|Mac Margolis|January 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Genital mutilation, for example, is not a just a medical problem but a legal problem.
Female Judges From Around the Globe Convene in D.C.|Eve Conant|April 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Those are also the culprits in her other lifelong cause: ending the practice now called Female Genital Mutilation.
Somaliland's Healer of Women|Lynn Sherr|March 13, 2010|DAILY BEAST
A mole or wart discovered on any part of an old woman's body was thought to be a witch-mark.
The Mysteries of All Nations|James Grant
Make a wart bleed, and put the blood on a penny, throw the latter away, and the finder will get the wart.
Current Superstitions|Various
If all my ascensions could be put together, they would out-top Olympus and make Ossa a wart.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections|William Archer
They are there without any apparent reason, as if they were a wart on the smooth cheek of mother nature.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
The water is a hundred fathoms deep between Trigger Island and that little green wart out there on the face of the ocean.
West Wind Drift|George Barr McCutcheon

Medical definitions for genital wart

genital wart

A pointed papilloma usually on the skin or mucous membranes of the anus and external genitalia, and caused by a virus transmitted through sexual contact.condyloma acuminatum fig wart moist wart pointed wart venereal wart verruca acuminata

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