Pl. verrucæ. [L. verrūca wart, excrescence on precious stones. Cf. It. verruca, Prov. veruca.] a. A wart. b. Bot., Conch., Ent. A wart-like formation, growth or prominence.
The pl. appears as veruce in Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (E.E.T.S.), 296–7.
a. 1565. J. Hall, Lanfrank’s Cirurg., Table 41. Galen (rekening it with Veruca,… and other lyke affectes of the skinne,) teacheth how with a holowe quille to plucke it out.
[1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., I. xlviii. 115. Verruca, a Wart, is a little tubercle on the Skin.
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Verrucæ, Warts, a sort of Tubercula.]
1770. Pennant, Zool., lv. 85. On the chin [of the Noctule bat is] a little verruca.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 349. Verruca is a hard or soft, rounded, flat, or acuminated, circumscribed, papillary formation.
a. 1883. Fagge, Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886), II. 718. Warts.—Verrucæ, papillomata.—These are small cutaneous tumours consisting in overgrowth of the papillæ of the cutis.
b. 1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 118. The upper parts of all the areas [of Echinus pentagonus] are remarkably bare; but, about the rounded margin, the verrucæ … become frequent.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvi. 273. Verruca, a small flattish wart-like prominence.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., i. 51. When sessile glands consist of cells containing solid secretions so that they form hardened spherical or other appendages upon the surface of the epidermis, they are termed verrucæ or warts.
