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wart

1. Pathol any firm abnormal elevation of the skin caused by a virus
2. Botany a small rounded outgrowth
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wart

[wȯrt]
(medicine)
A papillomatous growth which occurs singly or in groups on the skin surface; thought to be caused by a viral agent.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

wart

A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C, the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
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The results of our study also highlighted the importance of pretreatment wart size as an important factor in predicting response to treatment.
Up to seven to 10 overlapping pulses were applied to each wart, covering the lesion and 1 mm of surrounding unaffected skin.
Given that immunotherapy seems to be a rather safe way of wart treatment and, in addition, former studies have shown high rates of wart regression, we conducted the present study to evaluate the efficacy of the MMR vaccine injection in the treatment of resistant-to-therapy palmoplantar warts.
Objective: To compare the efficacy of 20% zinc oxide paste versus 15% salicylic acid-15% lactic acid combination in treatment of common viral warts.
M2 EQUITYBITES-May 21, 2018-RXi Pharmaceuticals reports positive results from Phase 2 trial of Samcyprone in subjects with common warts
Summary: Viral warts, especially on the fingers, are very common
A crossbred Frieswal bull aged around fifteen months was reported to be suffering from cutaneous warts over the face, head and both side of the neck for last two months at the bull rearing unit.
Using a typical drug cream or liquid that is used directly into the wart for several days each week and this can be given at home or at the hospital depending on the type of treatment and treatment may continue for several weeks.
Cytovation's lead product, CyPep-1 is a first in class peptide consisting of 27 amino acids that is currently in pre-clinical development for the treatment of cutaneous warts caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) and has applications in other dermatological diseases.
Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effects of combined 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) on genital warts and the safety.
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