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type of warts
What are warts? Wikipedia defines it generally as a small, rough tumor, typically on hands and feet that can resemble a cauliflower or a solid blister. It is also known as verruca and are caused specifically by the virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). Warts are contagious when you come in contact with the skin of an infected person. It is also possible to get warts from using towels or other objects used by an infected person. They typically disappear after a few months but can last for years and can recur.
As an overview, here are the different types of warts that varying in shape and site that it usually affects, as well as the type of human papillomavirus involved. There is the common wart (Verruca vulgaris) which is a raised wart with roughened surface, most common on hands and knees; flat wart (Verruca plana), a small, smooth flattened wart, tan or flesh coloured, which can occur in large numbers; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees; filiform or digitate wart, a thread- or finger-like wart, most common on the face, especially near the eyelids and lips; plantar wart (verruca, Verruca pedis), a hard sometimes painful lump, often with multiple black specks in the center; usually only found on pressure points on the soles of the feet; mosaic wart, a group of tightly clustered plantar-type warts, commonly on the hands or soles of the feet; and the genital wart (venereal wart, Condyloma acuminatum, Verruca acuminata), a wart that occurs on the genitalia.