See Also: verruca vulgaris(medicine)
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verruca vulgaris (medicine)


verruca vulgaris


A keratotic papilloma of the epidermis which occurs most frequently in young persons as a result of localised 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.

Synonym: common wart, infectious warts, verruca simplex, viral wart.