comedo (redirected from comedones)

com·e·do  (km-d)

n. pl. com·e·dos or com·e·do·nes (-dnz)

See blackhead.

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[Latin comed, glutton (from a comparison of the worm-like shape of the waxy material that can be squeezed from a blackhead to a worm believed to feed on the body), from comedere, to eat up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

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comedo [ˈkɒmɪˌdəʊ]

n pl comedos, comedones [ˌkɒmɪˈdəʊniːz]

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the technical name for blackhead

[from New Latin, from Latin: glutton, from comedere to eat up, from com- (intensive) + edere to eat]

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comedo - a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin blackhead blemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"