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MILIUM (milia)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does milium mean?
• MILIUM (noun)
The noun MILIUM has 1 sense:
1. a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Familiarity information: MILIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
milium; whitehead
Hypernyms ("milium" is a kind of...):
blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))
Holonyms ("milium" is a part of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
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