A warty growth on the hand due to tuberculosis, typically
of someone doing postmortem examinations. A cadaver with unsuspected tuberculosis
was once a major hazard for pathologists and others in the autopsy room. Cadaver
warts were among the least of the dangers.
A cadaver wart is known by a number of other names including anatomical tubercle,
anatomical wart, dissection tubercle, necrogenic wart, postmortem tubercle, prosector's
tubercle, prosector's wart, tuberculosis cutis verrucosa and verruca necrogenica.
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