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Verruca   Listen
noun
Verruca  n.  (pl. verrucae)  
1.
(Med.) A wart.
2.
(Zool.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.





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"Verruca" Quotes from Famous Books



... greater number of species are dextral, with rare and occasional reversals of development, and some few are normally sinistral; but certain species of Bulimus, and, many Achatinellae,[123] are as often sinistral as dextral. I will give an analogous case in the great Articulate kingdom: the two sides of Verruca[124] are so wonderfully unlike, that without careful dissection it is extremely difficult to recognise the corresponding parts on the opposite sides of the body; yet it is apparently a mere matter of chance whether it be the right or the left side that undergoes so singular an amount of change. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Verruca" :   juvenile wart, blemish, pathology, wart, condyloma acuminatum, verruca acuminata, mar, genital wart, keratosis, plantar wart


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