comedo

Noun
Synonyms: blackhead

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skinSynonyms: blackhead
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Comedo \Com"e*do\, n.; pl. Comedones. [L., a glutton. See Comestible.] (Med.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt). [1913 Webster]
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