 The most common joint type is the diarthrosis of articulating joints, which has a fibrous connective tissue capsule (ligament), continuous with the periosteum of the two bones and which permits a degree of freedom of movement between the two bones.
Verruca: A wart by another name, a local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a human papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation).
weighted average remaining term (WART) Definition. The number of months remaining before the maturity of a pool of mortgage-backed securities stated as an average of all the securities in the pool and weighted by the amount of the remaining principle balance of each security. Used as a measure of the rate of prepayment by mortgage holders.