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Wart: A local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation).
Warts that occur on the hands or top of the feet are called common warts. A wart on the sole (the plantar surface) of the foot is a plantar wart (and can be quite painful). Genital (venereal)warts are located on the genitals and are transmitted by sexual contact they are a form of STD ( sexually transmitted disease).
Warts are nothing new. The word wart is from Old English. As far back as the 8th century, a wart was, well, a wart.
The medical name for a wart is verruca, the Latin for wart. A common wart is a verruca vulgaris. A wart in medicine is also sometimes called by its Spanish name, verruga.