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How to pronounce blackhead in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms comedo
Type of blemish, defect, mar

Examples of blackhead

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Gently remove the blackhead and then dab the area with an alcohol-based astringent.
From the stltoday.com
These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead.
From the time.com
So make sure your visage is in prime condition with a deep-cleansing, blackhead-reducing scrub.
From the express.co.uk
Perhaps I'm not qualified to say this, but blackhead extraction is more painful than giving birth.
From the time.com
When the mixture cools enough to stick your finger in it, apply it to the blackhead with a cotton ball.
From the stltoday.com
Also, avoid blackhead-removing strips, which can remove a top layer of skin more easily while on such medications.
From the edition.cnn.com
Without oil, your P acnes bacteria don't grow, your pimples and blackhead disappear and your skin is smooth as silk all day.
From the poseidonsciences.scienceblog.com
More examples
  • A black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin
  • A blackhead (medically known as an open comedo, plural '''''') is a yellow or blackish bump or plug on the skin. A blackhead is a type of acne vulgaris. ...
  • 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.
  • 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
  • (Blackheads) A term used to describe the skin's pores clogged by natural oils and impurities.
  • Blackheads, also known as open comedones, are follicles that have a wider than normal opening. They are filled with plugs of sebum and sloughed-off cells and have undergone a chemical reaction resulting in the oxidation of melanin. This gives the material in the follicle the typical black color.
  • (Blackheads) A mixture of dead skin cells, oil, and bacteria exposed to oxygen.
  • (Blackheads) a pore partially blocked with trapped sebum which has begun to push through the skin's surface, blackening upon the sebum's exposure to air
  • (Blackheads) caused by hardened masses of sebum, formed in the ducts or the sebaceous glands. They are direct result of skin pores becoming clogged with sebum and dead skin cells.