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comedone

comedone is the alternative form of comedo.

Meaning of comedo

Noun

comedo (plural comedones or comedos)

  1. A clogged hair follicle in the skin, formed when keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.
    • 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.1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

Forms of comedone

pluralcomedones

Words formed from comedone

Questions about comedone

What is comedone the alternative form of?
Comedone is the alternative form of comedo.

Words near comedone in the dictionary

  1. comedogens
  2. comedolysis
  3. comedolytic
  4. comedolytics
  5. comedonal
  6. comedone
  7. comedonecroses
  8. comedonecrosis
  9. comedonecrotic
  10. comedones
  11. comedos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comedone (page history and authors); comedo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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