Usually means: Clogged pores with closed white tops.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word whiteheads:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiteheads: Merriam-Webster
  2. Whiteheads: Vocabulary.com
  3. Whitehead's, Whiteheads, whiteheads: Wordnik
  4. Whiteheads, whiteheads: Wiktionary
  5. whiteheads: Dictionary.com
  6. whiteheads: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. whiteheads: Vocabulary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiteheads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiteheads: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. whiteheads: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Whitehead)

noun:  (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.
noun:  A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
noun:  The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
noun:  The surf scoter duck.
noun:  A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
noun:  The Rural Municipality of Whitehead, a rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada.
noun:  A community of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.
noun:  A form of self-propelling torpedo.
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