soot wart
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[edit]Noun
[edit]soot wart (plural soot warts)
- A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 238:
- He recorded that [...] scrotal cancer typically burst out of a superficial skin wound that tradesmen called a soot wart.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Chimney sweeps' carcinoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia