Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology, oncology An
epithelial tumour , usuallybenign , with the appearance of apapilla .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass
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Examples
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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.
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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."
NYT > Home Page 1985 By First Mention HPV 2011
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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.
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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.
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HPV-6 DNA, however, turned out to be helpful in isolating another closely related genital wart papillomavirus, HPV-11, initially from a laryngeal papilloma.
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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.
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Gardasil, vaccine against certain types of the human papilloma virus HPV.
Cervical cancer diagnosis rate rises among women in their 20s 2011
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In 2007, Perry issued an executive order requiring sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against human papilloma virus, or HPV.
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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.
Cervical cancer diagnosis rate rises among women in their 20s 2011
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Only a third of eligible young girls have been vaccinated against human papilloma virus, for instance.
The New Prudery Holly Finn 2011
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