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A blackhead is a blocked sweat/sebaceous duct of the skin known medically as an open comedo.
Blackhead may also refer to:
Places
edit- Blackhead (New Zealand), a cliff promontory to the south of Dunedin, New Zealand
- Blackhead Beach (Otago), close to the promontory
- Blackhead, Hawke's Bay, a settlement in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
- Blackhead Bay, a bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- A community in Small Point-Adam's Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Blackhead Mountains, a mountain range in the northern Catskills of New York, US
- Blackhead (New York), a peak in the Blackhead Range of mountains, New York, US
- Blackhead Point, also known as Tai Pau Mai, a cape in Hong Kong
Other uses
edit- Blackhead disease, or histomoniasis, which affects poultry
See also
edit- Brotherhood of Blackheads, a military order of unmarried merchants in historical Livonia
- Black Head (disambiguation)
- Black-headed caique (Pionites melanocephalus), a small parrot of South America
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