Verrucae usually make walking painful, and can feel like you’re stepping on a needle. How do they spread? Warts and verrucae are caused by skin contact with the virus. This usually happens when ...

Warts, or verrucae, are benign, semi-contagious growths of the outer layer of the skin. They are caused by viruses and tend to occur on the hands, arms, face, upper trunk, legs, feet and in ...

Incidence peaks between the ages of 12 and 16 years. Warts over the fingers (fig 1) are the most common presentation but plantar warts (verrucae vulgaris) and knee warts are also commonplace. It ...

It appears that ornithophily and chiropterophily are often associated with round lumps (termed verrucae or gemmae), or rope-like structures (striae) covering the surface of the pollen (Fig.1). These ...