Crossword-Solution: COMEDO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comedo | n. | 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). |
We have 5 clues for the answer “COMEDO”
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| Certain facial blemish | 1 answer |
| Dermal blemish | 1 answer |
| BLACKHEAD | 6 answers |
| pimple | 9 answers |
| SKIN blemish | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMEDO (5)
The black specks soon began to project, and comedo-like plugs and small, spine-like growths were produced.
Comedo Extractor.] #Name the systemic remedies commonly employed.# Cod-liver oil, iron, quinine, arsenic, nux vomica and other tonics; ergot in those cases in which there is lack of muscular tone, salines and aperient pills in constipation.
The blackheads, so far as practicable, are to be removed by pressure with the fingers or with a suitable instrument (see Comedo), and the superficial pustules punctured and the contents pressed out.
COMEDO, kom'e-do, _n._ a small, black-tipped, worm-like mass which is found on the face of some persons.
Examples, atheroma and comedo of the skin, mucous cysts of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, ovula Nabothi, and cystic polypus of the uterus; retention-cyst of the antrum, vermiform appendage, gall-bladder, and bile-ducts; dropsical dilatation of the ovarian follicles, Fallopian tube, uterus (hydrometra), parovarium (cyst of the broad ligament); hydronephrosis and multilocular cystic kidney, spermatocele, ranula, galactocele.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1991–2016).