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blackhead

1. a black-tipped plug of fatty matter clogging a pore of the skin, esp the duct of a sebaceous gland
2. an infectious and often fatal disease of turkeys and some other fowl caused by the parasitic protozoa Histomonas meleagridis
3. any of various birds, esp gulls or ducks, with black plumage on the head
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blackhead

[′blak‚hed]
(medicine)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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