Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tumor, usually small, growing on some external or internal surface, composed of vascular connective tissue covered with epidermis or epithelium, and formed by the hypertrophy of a normal papilla or of a group of several, or resembling a structure thus formed. It includes corns, warts condylomata, mucous tubercles, and some forms of polypi and villous tumors.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology, oncology An epithelial tumour, usually benign, with the appearance of a papilla.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass
Examples
“But, maybe I should mention it; I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus, I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer.”
“Nobel Prize for his work, were "finding strong evidence linking viruses in the family called papilloma with genital cancers, notably cancers of the cervix and vulva.”
“HALL: Well, I think the concept would be that we know that many cancers can be caused by chronic inflammation, by particularly sexually transmitted diseases, such as papilloma virus or cervical cancer.”
“The European Union's NanoMuBiop project, led by project co-ordinator Hospitex Diagnostics in Italy and also involving the Pasteur Institute in France, is developing a high-sensitivity test to detect the specific forms of the human papilloma virus HPV that often cause cervical cancer.”
The Guardian: Nanotechnoglogy world: Nanomedicine offers new cures
“Gardasil, vaccine against certain types of the human papilloma virus HPV.”
The Guardian: Cervical cancer diagnosis rate rises among women in their 20s
“Experts said more encouragement must be given for girls of 12 and 13 to be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus HPV, which can trigger the disease, and for women in their late 20s and 30s to be screened, even though cancer prevention figures are not as good as those for older women.”
The Guardian: Cervical cancer diagnosis rate rises among women in their 20s
“Only a third of eligible young girls have been vaccinated against human papilloma virus, for instance.”
“HPV-6 DNA, however, turned out to be helpful in isolating another closely related genital wart papillomavirus, HPV-11, initially from a laryngeal papilloma.”
“Since genital warts had been shown to contain typical papilloma-virus particles, this triggered the suspicion that the genital wart virus might represent the causative agent for cervical cancer.”
“In 2007, Perry issued an executive order requiring sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against human papilloma virus, or HPV.”
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"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
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