Path. [Sp. (also Pg. and Prov.) verruga wart:—L. verrūca VERRUCA.] A febrile disease endemic in Peru and characterized by warty eruptions or tumors on the skin; Peruvian wart. Also in pl. verrugas.
[a. 1883. Fagge, Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886), II. 744. Yaws … appears to be identical with what is known … as Verrugas in Peru.]
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 499. Patients suffering from verruga … do not communicate the contagion to others.
attrib. 1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 498. Verruga cases do better in warm places. Ibid., 499. The inhabitants of these verruga districts.
