COMEDO
\kəmˈiːdə͡ʊ], \kəmˈiːdəʊ], \k_ə_m_ˈiː_d_əʊ]\
Definitions of COMEDO
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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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).
By Oddity Software
By William R. Warner
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kom'e-do, n. a small, black-tipped, worm-like mass which is found on the face of some persons. [L. comed[)e]re, to eat up.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] A disease in which the excretory ducts of the sebaceous glands are distended with a whitish plug of inspissated sebum; also the plug itself. Treatment: expression of plugs, followed first by hot water lotions and afterward by inunctions of sulphur or mercury.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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