blackhead

English

Etymology

black + head

Noun

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

1. (countable, 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. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
3. (countable) A scaup: a kind of duck.

Translations

skin blemish

• Arabic: بُثُور سَوْدَاء f pl (buṯūr sawdāʔ), رُؤُوس سَوْدَاء f pl (ruʔūs sawdāʔ)
• Belarusian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
• Bulgarian: чѐрна то̀чка f (čèrna tòčka)
• Dutch: mee-eter (nl) m
• Finnish: mustapää (fi), komedo (fi)
• French: point noir (fr) m, comédon (fr) m
• Galician: espiña (gl) f
• German: Mitesser (de) m, Komedo (de) m
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• Greek: φαγέσωρας (el) m (fagésoras), μαύρο στίγμα n (mávro stígma)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: comedone (it) m
• Portuguese: cravo (pt) m, comedão m, ponto negro m
• Russian: комедо́н (ru) m (komedón), у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
• Swedish: pormask (sv) c
• Vietnamese: mụn đầu đen (vi)

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