soot wart

noun

soot wart

noun

1

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 238:

Synonyms: chimney sweep's cancer, chimney sweep's carcinoma

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