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verruga Path.|vɛˈruːgə|
[a. Sp. (also Pg. and Prov.) verruga wart:—L. verrūca verruca.]
The second, chronic stage of an infection by the bacterium Bartonella bacilliformis, characterized by wart-like skin lesions: see Oroya fever; formerly also called Peruvian wart. Also verruga peruana, verruga peruviana [Sp. peruana Peruvian; peruviana, mod.L. rendering of this], and in pl. verrugas.
[1825W. B. Stevenson Hist. & Descr. Narr. Twenty Years' Residence in S. Amer. I. xiv. 347 Berrugas, warts of a peculiar kind, are common in some of the valleys of the coast [of Peru]. ]1873T. J. Hutchinson Two Years in Peru II. xx. 58 He was getting through an attack of that dreadful disease, the verrugas, and appeared but the shadow of a man. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 499 Patients suffering from verruga..do not communicate the contagion to others. 1949, etc. [see Oroya fever]. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. ix. 190 Bartonellosis is a peculiar disease which occurs in Peru and is characterized by Oroya fever and verruga peruviana.
attrib.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 498 Verruga cases do better in warm places. Ibid. 499 The inhabitants of these verruga districts. 1968T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test xxi. 305 He can feel..every verruga fly, velvet ant, murine fleas and crabs. |