verrugas

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A specific disease, often fatal, occurring in Peru; frambœsia. A prominent characteristic is the appearance of warty growths on the skin. See also yaws.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Med.) An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.