comedo

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The excess sebum combines with the dead cells and forms a plug, or comedo (also called comedones), that blocks the pore, which is not usually seen.

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  1. noun See blackhead.

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  1. Latin comedō, glutton (from a comparison of the worm-like shape of the waxy material that can be squeezed from a blackhead to a worm believed to feed on the body), from comedere, to eat up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, a glutton, from comedere, eat up, from com- (intensive) + edere = English eat.
 

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/ˈkɑmɛdoʊ/
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