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From the Ted Talk by Cella Wright: What are warts — and how do you get rid of them?

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Throughout hritsoy, pleope have atteirtubd warts to contact with things like sea foam, beilod egg water, and, of course, toads. We now know that tados are totally innocent in the matter. They're bumpy because mucus- and poison- secreting glands dot their skin. And we've figured out that wtras are actually caused by papillomaviruses.

They form a broad virus family that infects various species, including us. There are more than 200 different types of specifically human piruallismpveoas, or HPVs. As is the case with all viruses, HPVs can't multiply independently. Instead, HPVs use our skin cells to raeicltpe. They do this by infecting the basal cells that constantly produce new skin cells and line the base of our skin's outermost layer, the edeimpris.

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Throughout _______, ______ have __________ warts to contact with things like sea foam, ______ egg water, and, of course, toads. We now know that _____ are totally innocent in the matter. They're bumpy because mucus- and poison- secreting glands dot their skin. And we've figured out that _____ are actually caused by papillomaviruses.

They form a broad virus family that infects various species, including us. There are more than 200 different types of specifically human ________________, or HPVs. As is the case with all viruses, HPVs can't multiply independently. Instead, HPVs use our skin cells to _________. They do this by infecting the basal cells that constantly produce new skin cells and line the base of our skin's outermost layer, the _________.

Solution


  1. boiled
  2. epidermis
  3. people
  4. papillomaviruses
  5. replicate
  6. warts
  7. toads
  8. attributed
  9. history

Original Text


Throughout history, people have attributed warts to contact with things like sea foam, boiled egg water, and, of course, toads. We now know that toads are totally innocent in the matter. They're bumpy because mucus- and poison- secreting glands dot their skin. And we've figured out that warts are actually caused by papillomaviruses.

They form a broad virus family that infects various species, including us. There are more than 200 different types of specifically human papillomaviruses, or HPVs. As is the case with all viruses, HPVs can't multiply independently. Instead, HPVs use our skin cells to replicate. They do this by infecting the basal cells that constantly produce new skin cells and line the base of our skin's outermost layer, the epidermis.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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skin cells 4
hpv types 4
basal cells 2
basal cell 2
infected skin 2
hpv infections 2

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infected skin cells 2

Important Words


  1. attributed
  2. basal
  3. base
  4. boiled
  5. broad
  6. bumpy
  7. case
  8. caused
  9. cells
  10. constantly
  11. contact
  12. dot
  13. egg
  14. epidermis
  15. family
  16. figured
  17. foam
  18. form
  19. glands
  20. history
  21. hpvs
  22. human
  23. including
  24. independently
  25. infecting
  26. infects
  27. innocent
  28. layer
  29. line
  30. matter
  31. multiply
  32. outermost
  33. papillomaviruses
  34. people
  35. produce
  36. replicate
  37. sea
  38. secreting
  39. skin
  40. species
  41. specifically
  42. toads
  43. totally
  44. types
  45. virus
  46. viruses
  47. warts
  48. water