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plantar wart

A wart on the sole, often painful; usually caused by human papilloma virus type 1.

Synonym: verruca plantaris.

pointed wart, obsolete term for condyloma acuminatum.

postmortem wart, a tuberculous warty growth (tuberculosis cutis verrucosa) on the hand of one who performs postmortem examinations.

Synonym: anatomical tubercle, anatomical wart, dissection tubercle, necrogenic wart, postmortem tubercle, prosector's tubercle, prosector's wart, verruca necrogenica.