verrucous

[ver-uh-kuhs, vuh-roo-]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, marked by, or like a wart or warts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of verrucous¹

1650–60; variant of verrucose; -ous

Example Sentences

Koch's bacillus, too, sometimes remarkably mild in its effects, and seeming to meet with no reaction in the system, evolves aside as in the verrucous tuberculosis; while at other times nothing is able to arrest the action of this terrible microbe, and the world still waits in vain for the man who shall find the means of combatting it.

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It was easy to see that the right lateral wall was covered to an extent of from three to four centimeters with thick masses of verrucous and fungiform excrescences.

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Microscopical examination shows a marked increase in the pigment in the lowest layers of the rete mucosum, as well as more or less pigmentation in the corium usually following the course of the bloodvessels; in the verrucous variety the papillæ are greatly hypertrophied, in addition to the increased pigmentation.

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Lactic acid, applied with one to ten or more parts of water is also of value in the sclerous and verrucous types.

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Blastomycetic dermatitis is a rare disease beginning usually as a small papule or nodule, enlarging slowly, breaking down and developing into a verrucous or papillomatous-looking area, similar in appearance Blastomycetic dermatitis.

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