blackhead

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blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

(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.
Coordinate term: whitehead
- 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
  See there! A son is born
  And we pronounce him fit to fight
  There are blackheads on his shoulders
  And he pees himself in the night.
- 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 215:
  Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.
(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.

skin blemish

Arabic: بُثُور سَوْدَاء f pl (buṯūr sawdāʔ), رُؤُوس سَوْدَاء f pl (ruʔūs sawdāʔ)
Belarusian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
Bulgarian: че́рна то́чка f (čérna tóčka)
Catalan: barb (ca) m
Dutch: mee-eter (nl) m
Finnish: mustapää (fi), komedo (fi)
French: point noir (fr) m, comédon (fr) m
Galician: espiña (gl) f
Georgian: შავი ფერიმჭამელა (šavi perimč̣amela)
German: Mitesser (de) m, Komedo (de) m
Greek: φαγέσωρας (el) m (fagésoras), μαύρο στίγμα n (mávro stígma)
Hungarian: mitesszer (hu)
Italian: punto nero m, comedone (it) m
Macedonian: црнка f (crnka)
Norwegian Nynorsk: hudorm m
Portuguese: cravo (pt) m, comedão m, ponto negro m
Russian: комедо́н (ru) m (komedón), у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
Spanish: punto negro m
Swedish: pormask (sv) c
Turkish: konedon, siyah nokta
Ukrainian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
Vietnamese: mụn đầu đen (vi)