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Blackhead vs Blacklead - What's the difference?

blackhead | blacklead |

As nouns the difference between blackhead and blacklead

is that blackhead is (medicine) a comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface while blacklead is .

As a verb blacklead is

to cover, treat or polish with graphite.

blackhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
  • A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
  • A scaup: a kind of duck.
  • blacklead

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover, treat or polish with graphite
  • Noun

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