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  • This benign lesion is a dry, raised, wart-like growth that appears on the skin seemingly overnight and out of nowhere.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • This benign lesion is a dry, raised, wart-like growth that appears on the skin seemingly overnight and out of nowhere.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • This benign lesion is a dry, raised, wart-like growth that appears on the skin seemingly overnight and out of nowhere.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Eugene developed an eruptive skin condition -- tiny red spots that grew into horrendous wart-like growths -- coupled with numbness in his arm, endless muscle spasms throughout his body, and rapidly blurring eyesight.

    Jim Luce: Wall Street Lawyer on "The Positive Presumption" 2009

  • It's the 'mimetic' novel that's the odd wart-like bump on the tradition, and probably a transient one.

    Tour de Force Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • "As southern right whales are individually recognisable from the pattern of wart-like callosities on their head, the photographs taken enable scientists to follow the reproductive history and survival of individual whales over many years," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for lesions that don't heal, persistent sores, rapid growth of a lesion, a shiny or red patch that does not seem to match any other location on the body, a wart-like growth.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2005 2005

  • Flat, painful wart-like spots on the sole of the foot are often 'plantar warts'.

    Chapter 22 1993

  • The root-knot eelworms, Meloidogyne spp., cause wart-like growths on the tubers, adversely affecting yields, and are serious pests in both temperate and tropical areas.

    Chapter 25 1987

  • The little gun, it had been discovered from a hairline scratch on the bullet that had killed Adela Knighton, had a tiny pinhead-sized protuberance, a minute wart-like flaw, on the inside of its barrel.

    The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

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