blackhead

English

Etymology

black + head

Noun

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

Translations

skin blemish

Arabic: بُثُور سَوْدَاء‎‎ f pl (buṯūr sawdāʾ), رُؤُوس سَوْدَاء‎‎ f pl (ruʾūs sawdāʾ)
Belarusian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
Dutch: mee-eter (nl) m
Finnish: mustapää (fi), komedo (fi)
French: point noir (fr) m, comédon (fr) m
German: Mitesser (de) m, Komedon n

Greek: φαγέσωρας (el) m (fagésoras), μαύρο στίγμα n (mávro stígma)
Italian: comedone (it) m
Portuguese: cravo (pt) m
Russian: комедо́н (ru) m (komedón), у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
Swedish: pormask (sv) c
Vietnamese: mụn đầu đen (vi)

Further reading

blackhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Blackhead in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

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