a. [ad. L. verrūcōs-us, f. verrūca VERRUCA: cf. prec. So OF. verrucueux, veruqueux, mod.F. verruqueux, -euse.]

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  1.  = VERRUCOSE a. 1 and 2. rare.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr. (following Cooper), Verrucous, full of warts, hillocks or knaps.

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1658.  Phillips, Verrucous, full of warts or little excrescences of the flesh. [Similarly in Chambers, Cycl. (1728).]

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1828–32.  Webster, s.v., A verrucous capsule.

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  2.  Path. Of the nature of a wart or warts; characterized by the formation of warts.

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1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Verruca, Verrucous is applied to any Excrescencies which have a resemblance to Warts.

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1849–52.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. II. 1262/2. The urethra is sometimes occupied by verrucous vegetations, the result of gonorrhœa.

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1876.  Duhring, Dis. Skin, 165. In thickened,… localized patches of eczema a peculiar warty, verrucous condition at times shows itself.

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1900.  Hutchinson’s Arch. Surg., XI. 223. They are of the kind known as the Verrucous nævus.

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