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Comedo

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Cutis 70% connected

See Dermis.

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Skin 70% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Tegument 70% connected

A cover or covering; an integument.

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Blackhead 92% connected

The scaup duck.

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Whitehead 92% connected

The blue-winged snow goose.

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a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"

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a low area where the land is saturated with water

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orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Blood pressure noun · 78% connection

the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, nodule, cystic, tumor, common.
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Boil noun · 78% connection

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead t…

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Checkmate verb · 78% connection

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, nodule, cystic, tumor, common.
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Cistic adjective · 78% connection

See Cystic.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, nodule, cystic, tumor, common.
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Concretion noun · 78% connection

A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of…

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Cystic adjective · 78% connection

Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

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Cystose adjective · 78% connection

Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

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Eaglestone noun · 78% connection

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle tr…

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Elude verb · 78% connection

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; a…

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Escape noun · 78% connection

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in…

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Escapement noun · 78% connection

The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse b…

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Geode noun · 78% connection

A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

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Impress noun · 78% connection

A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result pro…

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