soot wart en · NOUN
Meanings
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A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
He recorded that [...] scrotal cancer typically burst out of a superficial skin wound that tradesmen called a soot wart.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 238:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| soot warts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |