soot wart

English

Noun

soot wart (plural soot warts)

1. A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 238:

     He recorded that [...] scrotal cancer typically burst out of a superficial skin wound that tradesmen called a soot wart.

Synonyms

• chimney sweep's cancer
• chimney sweep's carcinoma

Further reading

• Chimney sweeps' carcinoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia