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Definition of Comedo

1. Noun. A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin.

Definition of Comedo

1. n. 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).

Definition of Comedo

1. Noun. a blackhead ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Comedo

1. a skin blemish [n -DOS or -DONES]

Medical Definition of Comedo

1. A plug of keratin and sebum within the dilated orifice of a hair follicle, frequently containing the bacteria Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus albus and Pityrosporon ovale, also called blackhead. See: acne. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Comedo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"comedo is a disorder of the sebaceous glands or gland-ducts, characterized by yellowish ... The so-called double or multiple comedo, usually upon the back, ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, for the Use of Students and by James Nevins Hyde (1893)
"Statistical frequency in America, 0.9S9. comedo is a ... The visible extremity of the comedo varies in size from a needle-point to a pin-head. ..."

3. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"A comedo, or "blackhead," is a mass of inspissated secretion blocking the excretory ... Wolff has reported an interesting example of comedo of the arms. ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1890)
"comedo. comedo is a disease of the sebaceous glands, due to retention of sebum ... comedo might possibly be mistaken for acne punctata, but inflammatory ..."

5. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1877)
"comedo is A DISORDER OP THE SEBACEOUS GLANDS CHARACTERIZED BY YELLOWISH OR WHITISH ... Each single elevation or papule is designated a comedo, and they are ..."

6. A Compend of Diseases of the Skin by Jay Frank Schamberg (1913)
"comedo is a condition characterized by black, pinhead-sized plugs of sebum lying in the mouths of the sebaceous ducts. Symptoms.—comedones appear as yellow, ..."

7. Diseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1921)
"comedo is a condition characterized by blackish, pin-head-sized plugs of ... comedo is an affection so commonly precedent to and accompanying acne as to ..."

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