whitehead

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English

Etymology

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whitehead

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From white +‎ head.

Noun

whitehead (plural whiteheads)

2. (dermatology) A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.

   Synonym: closed comedo

   Coordinate term: blackhead

   Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.

   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 151:

     Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.

3. A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
4. The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
5. The surf scoter duck.
6. A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

Derived terms

• like a whitehead
• whiteheaded

Translations

a passerine bird of New Zealand

Maori: pōpokotea

pimple

Finnish: valkopää (fi) German: Mitesser (de) m, Komedo (de) m Ukrainian: вуго́р m (vuhór)