comedo
Americannoun
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comedos,
plural
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comedones
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of comedo
1865–70; < New Latin; Latin: glutton, equivalent to comed ( ere ) to consume, eat up ( com- com- + edere to eat ) + -ō agent suffix
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How would you treat a case of comedo?
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Is there any difficulty in the diagnosis of comedo?
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
On the upper trunk so-called double and multiple comedo have been noted—the two, three, or even four closely-contiguous blackheads are, beneath the surface, intercommunicable, the dividing duct-walls having apparently disappeared by fusion.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Why is the human animal so peculiar in its tendency to form volcanic comedones, papules, pustules, nodular abscesses, and, in some severe cases, lasting scars?
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2011
Interspersed may generally be seen blackheads, or comedones.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The physical condition presented nothing of note, except for a certain sluggishness of the skin with marked comedones.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
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