A wart is an epidermal (skin) tumor caused by a variety of different viral infections. Remember that the word tumor simply means lump or mass and does not always infer cancer. In medical terms, warts are typically referred to as papillomas with "papill" being Latin for "nipple" and "oma" meaning "a morbid growth."

All warts are basically caused by different types of the equine

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