Crossword-Solution: COMEDONES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comedones | pl. | of Comedo |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COMEDONES | anagram | COMESDONE |
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| BLACKHEADS | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
EMCZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMEDONES (5)
Flesh Worms, Comedones, Pimples, etc.--This is a disorder of the sebaceous glands in which the sebaceous (fatty, cheesy) secretions become thickened; the excreting ducts, appearing on the surface, as yellowish or blackish points.
Mercurial and sulphur applications should not be used, it need scarcely be said, within a week or ten days of each other, otherwise an increase in the comedones and a slight darkening of the skin result from the formation of the black sulphuret of mercury.
But in the case of acneiform disorders the concurrence of comedones, the chronic course of the disease, the absence of fever and systemic disturbance, and the particularly irregular distribution of the lesions upon the face, with failure to appear elsewhere,--all these facts forbid the confusion of the affection with variola.
They may occasionally obstruct the excretory gland ducts, thus causing inflammation of the gland (comedones); their agglomeration in the meibomian glands sets up inflammation of the margins of the eyelids.
Veiel[1041] assumes that the hair follicle mite has no connection either with the formation of comedones or even with sebaceous gland disease.