Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

human papillomavirus
One of the family of
more than 100 viruses that are responsible for caus-
ing warts. Abbreviated HPV. The majority of HPVs
produce warts on the hands, fingers, or face. Most
of these warts are innocuous, causing nothing more
than cosmetic concerns. Several types of HPV are
confined primarily to the moist skin of the genitals,
producing genital warts, and have been identified as
a cause of cancer of the cervix and other cancers of
the ano-genital region. The HPVs that cause wartlike
growths on the genitals are sexually transmitted. A
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vaccine is available that protects against infection by
the most common types of HPVs that are associated
with cancer and genital warts.
humerus
The long bone in the upper arm that
extends from the shoulder to the elbow.
humidifier
A machine that puts moisture into the
air. Humidified air makes it easier to breathe for
persons with certain conditions, such as cystic
fibrosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, and others.
humor
In medicine, a fluid or semifluid sub-
stance. For example, the aqueous humor is the fluid
normally present in the anterior chamber of the eye,
between the cornea and the iris.
humor, aqueous
The fluid, continually pro-
duced by the ciliary body, that is normally present in
the anterior chamber of the eye, between the cornea
and the iris. 
humoral
Pertaining to elements in the blood or
other body fluids.
humoralism
An ancient theory holding that
health came from balance between the bodily liq-
uids termed humors. Disease was thought to arise
when imbalance occurred between the humors. The
humors were phlegm (water), blood, gall (black
bile, thought to be secreted by the kidneys and
spleen), and choler (yellow bile secreted by the
liver). The humoral theory was devised well before
Hippocrates, and it was not definitively demolished
until 1858. The word humor lives on as a medical
term for liquid or semiliquid substances in the body
and as a euphemism for mood (such as being “in
good humor”). Also known as humorism.