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Webster 1913 Edition


Comedo

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Com′e-do

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Noun.
;
pl.
Comedones
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.
[L., a glutton. See
Comestible
.]
(Med.)
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).