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What is a verruca?

What is a verruca? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
  2. (mycology) A rounded projection or wart.
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I felt like a very unsightly verruca that had had the temerity to erupt on her toe.
Several million eyes are on a boy from Devon with verruca socks and his partner whose name is destined to be forgotten.
Scientists estimate that about one in ten people have warts or verrucas at any one time and that one in four of us has at least one wart or verruca at some point in our lives.
He then packed away his stethoscope, his silver thumping cone, his verruca salts, his jar of leeches.
One thing you might try yourself before going to the doctor is to apply masking tape over the verruca.
Many practitioners find nitrate of silver a serviceable remedy in cases of verruca.

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