blackhead

English

Etymology

From black +‎ head.

Noun

blackhead (plural blackheads)

1. (medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
2. A scaup: a kind of duck.

Translations

skin blemish

• Arabic: بثور سوداء (ar) (buθūr sawdaʔ) f pl, رؤوس سوداء (ar) (ruʔūs sawdaaʔ) f pl
• French: point noir (fr) m, comédon (fr) m
• German: Mitesser m, Komedon n
• Italian: comedone (it) m

• Russian: комедон (ru) (komedón) m
• Swedish: pormask (sv) c

External links

• Blackhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Blackhead in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.