Look up: blackhead

1. Blackhead
   Blackhead is British slang for an immigrant from Eastern Europe or Arabia.
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2. Blackhead
   A disease of turkeys caused by the protozoan Histomonas meleagridis. Also called histomoniasis or infectious enterohepatitis.
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3. blackhead
   [n] - a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin
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4. Blackhead
   Blackhead: A familiar term for what is medically called an open comedo. A comedo, the primary sign of acne, consists of a dilated (widened) hair follicle filled with keratin squamae (skin debris), bacteria, and sebum (oil). An open comedo has a wide opening to the skin and is capped with a blackened...
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5. blackhead
   a destructive disease of turkeys and in a milder form of chickens and other related birds Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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6. Blackhead
   Black'head` noun (Zoology) The scaup duck.
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7. blackhead
   <zoology> The scaup duck. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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8. blackhead
   comedo noun a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin
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9. blackhead
   (blak´hed) a plug of keratin and sebum within the dilated orifice of a hair follicle. The dark color is caused not by dirt but by the discoloring effect of air on the sebum in the clogged pore. Infection may cause it to develop into a pustule or boil. See also acne vulgaris. Called also open comedo.
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10. Blackhead
    • (n.) The scaup duck.
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11. blackhead
    (from the article `acne`) ...sebaceous glands, which are stimulated by the upsurge in the circulating level of male sex hormones that accompanies the onset of puberty. The ...
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12. blackhead
    (from the article `rhizomastigote`) ...(e.g., Mastigamoeba) are free-living in fresh and salt water, in soil, or in other organisms. An important parasitic form is Histomonas ...
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13. Blackhead
    Blackhead is British slang for an immigrant from Eastern Europe or Arabia.
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14. blackhead
    blackhead, yellowish or blackish plug of material accumulated in the duct of a sebaceous gland. The material consists of keratin (horny cells of the epidermis) and modified sebum (oily secretions of the sebaceous gland). Blackheads are the primary lesions in acne. Treatment is the same as for acne, ...
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15. Blackhead
    A blackhead (comedo) is dirt blocking a pore that often causes acne.
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16. Blackhead
    |ICDO = |OMIM = |MedlinePlus = |eMedicineSubj = |eMedicineTopic = |MeshID = | --> A `blackhead` (medically known as an `open comedo`,--> plural `comedones`) is a yellow or blackish bump or plug on the skin. A blackhead is a type of acne vulgaris. Contrary to the common belief that it is caused by ...
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17. Blackhead
    (New York) --> --> --> `Blackhead` is a mountain located in Greene County, New York. The mountain is part of the Blackhead range of the Catskill Mountains. Blackhead is flanked to the northeast by Black Dome. Blackhead stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New Yor...
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