Sentence examples for verruca from inspiring English sources

Wart, also called verruca, a well-defined growth of varying shape and size on the skin surface, caused by a virus.

They variously called me "hook nose" – because I do have quite a large nose – or "verruca head" was another favourite.

On the sole of the foot a verruca that becomes rather flattened is called a plantar wart.

He then packed away his stethoscope, his silver thumping cone, his verruca salts, his jar of leeches.

And supervised or not, we are prepared to contend with the dangers of the element (bullies and thieves, switchblades and drowning, or even just the warty plague of all locker rooms: Verruca plantaris) — especially compared with the perils of the sweltering air above it.

I felt like a very unsightly verruca that had had the temerity to erupt on her toe.

We minimised it to "it's just like a horrible verruca-type thing but it's fine", but they read the story.

Many have wartlike projections (verrucae) that may bear tufts of setae or spiny projections, or there may be prominent hornlike or spiny processes.

Embarrassing Bodies' success stories include eight-year-old Charlotte Wilson, whose mother contacted the show in 2008 about her daughter's verrucas – a common viral infection that most people's immune systems defeat.

Some cause warts, verrucae and others are linked to cancer of the mouth, cervix and anus.

Warts, also called verrucae, are the most common viral skin infection and are probably more common in childhood than at any other time.