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(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin
Answer for the clue "(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin ", 4 letters:
wart
Alternative clues for the word wart
- Unsightly growth
- Salicylic acid target
- Unattractive bump
- Ugly lump in conflict with model
- Bump on the wrist?
- Arthur's nickname in "The Once and Future King"
- Clichéd feature on a witch's nose
- Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
- Abnormal blemish on the skin, caused by a virus
Word definitions for wart in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English weart "wart," from Proto-Germanic *warton- (cognates: Old Norse varta , Old Frisian warte , Dutch wrat , Old High German warza , German warze "wart"), from PIE root *wer- (1) "high, raised spot on the body, or other bodily infirmity" (cognates: ...
Usage examples of wart.
The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles.
She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.
One was a Roundhead officer, to judge from his bearing and russet coat: a strong-built person whose homely features grew mustache, chin-tuft, and warts.
The Wart felt a man on either side of him take his hand, as they stood in a circle, and then he noticed that the stridulation of the grasshoppers had begun again.
Greasy black hair hung down onto an unhealthily pale face dominated by hairy warts, including one on a bulbous nose above thick slack lips that appeared on the edge of drooling.
Then he exchanged a few words in Greek with an invisible gentleman called Aesculapius, and turned to the Wart.
The nutty little curved beak looked as if it were capable of doing damage, but Archimedes looked closely at the mouse, blinked at the Wart, moved nearer on the finger, closed his eyes and leaned forward.
The Wart cheered, Archimedes hooted till he cried, the gore-crow fell down dead, and Hecate, on the top of her ladder, clapped so much that she nearly tumbled off.
Wart sat down again on the floor, and Archimedes resumed his toilet, pulling his pinions and tail feathers through his beak to smooth the barbs together.
Wart copied Archimedes in zooming up towards the branch which they had selected.
Wart paid little or no attention to the lecture, but got his eyes accustomed to the strange tones of light instead, and watched Archimedes out of the corner of one of them.
She had a bony, pointed chin, an even bonier, sharper nose, and it seemed there were more warts growing hairs on her face than there was face.
His bulbous nose covered with sweat, the Firbolg scratched nervously at a wart, and bobbed his head in mute understanding.
Mann quotes Munde in speaking of an instance of removal of elephantiasis of the vulva without interrupting pregnancy, and says that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any interference with gestation.
His wife was a shrew with warts on her face and she spoke to him sharply when others were present, but Simcha did not complain.