caruncles

Much of this is covered in "caruncles," which superficially resemble warty outgrowths.

5 Chicken 1991

His caruncles at the base of his neck can turn such a vivid red that they look artificial.

QUIZ... 2010

His caruncles at the base of his neck can turn such a vivid red that they look artificial.

QUIZ... 2010

His caruncles were candied apple red and had a sky blue section on his head and a bright white head crown.

Everyday Enlightenments 2007

It figures that the caruncles, snood and wattle have evolved as display structures.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Male turkeys - called stags - famously display a distensible frontal process, or snood, fleshy polyp-like lumps called caruncles, and a dewlap that extends from the lower jaw to the neck.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

But the whole bone of the head, with the exception of a small portion of the uppermost and lowermost portions of it, is like a sponge; and the bone has in it many juicy substances, like caruncles; and if one will rub them with the fingers, some blood will issue from them.

On Injuries Of The Head 2007

[In Latin, _carunculæ myrtiformes_, which means in English myrtleberry-shaped caruncles; caruncle is a small fleshy elevation; derived from _caro_, which in Latin means flesh.]

Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

The remains of the hymen after it is ruptured shrink and form little elevations which can be easily felt; they are known as caruncles.

Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

Sonnini says that in a girl of eight he saw one of these caruncles which was 1/2 inch long, and another on a woman of twenty which was four inches long, and remarks that they seem peculiar only to women of distinct Egyptian origin.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896