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Whitehead

/wˈaɪˌthɛd/
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(noun) 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.

A whitehead is a small white bump on the skin that is a type of acne.
He had a single whitehead on his nose that he tried to hide today.
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