Meanings
nounsoot wart (plural soot warts)
plural soot warts
- A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
He recorded that [...] scrotal cancer typically burst out of a superficial skin wound that tradesmen called a soot wart.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 238Synonyms: chimney sweep's cancer, chimney sweep's carcinoma
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
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