WART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wart mean? 

• WART (noun)
  The noun WART has 3 senses:

1. any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

2. an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

3. (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

  Familiarity information: WART used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("wart" is a kind of...):

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("wart" is a kind of...):

imperfection; imperfectness (the state or an instance of being imperfect)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

verruca; wart

Hypernyms ("wart" is a kind of...):

blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

keratosis (a skin condition marked by an overgrowth of layers of horny skin)

Domain category:

pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wart"):

common wart (a benign growth (often with a rough surface))

condyloma acuminatum; genital wart; venereal wart; verruca acuminata (a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus)

juvenile wart (a small benign growth on the faces of hands of children)

plantar wart (a wart occurring on the sole of the foot)

Derivation:

warty ((of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts)

 Context examples 

The virus stays in your body even after treatment, so warts can come back.

(Genital Warts, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It can cause corns and small warts.

(Arsenic, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

A type of virus that can cause abnormal tissue growth (for example, warts) and other changes to cells.

(HPV, NCI Dictionary)

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are common viruses that can cause warts.

(HPV, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

HPV can cause abnormal tissue growth (for example, warts) and other changes to cells.

(HPV DNA test, NCI Dictionary)

A species of PAPILLOMAVIRUS producing large numbers of warts on calves.

(Bovine Papillomavirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A group of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause warts on the skin and alimentary track of cattle and other mammals.

(Bovine Papillomavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene have been associated with WHIM (warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis) syndrome.

(CXCR4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Benzo(a)pyrene can cause a skin rash, a burning feeling, skin color changes, warts, and bronchitis.

(Benzo(a)pyrene, NCI Dictionary)

Electrosurgery may be used to treat basal cell skin cancer or other types of skin problems, such as actinic keratoses, warts, and moles.

(Electrosurgery, NCI Dictionary)