Dictionary Definition

comedo n : a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: blackhead] [also: comedones (pl)]

User Contributed Dictionary

From Latin comedo ‘glutton’.

IPA: /kə'mi:dəʊ/

a blackhead

1964: Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose. — Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

comedo in German: Komedo

comedo in Spanish: Puntos negros

comedo in French: Comédon

comedo in Dutch: Mee-eter

comedo in Norwegian: Komedoner

comedo in Finnish: Mustapää

comedo in Swedish: Pormask