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pimples

noun as in acne

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It’s part of why I was once plagued with skin-excoriation problems, creating lesions on my face from “pimples” that were barely there anytime I felt a surge of stress.

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Symptoms of the virus include “rash or unusual sores that look like pimples or blisters on the face, body and genitals,” as well as “fever, chills, headache, muscle aches or swelling of lymph nodes.”

“When I educate patients, I tell them to look for pimples that don’t heal,” she added.

It might also temporarily reduce pain and swelling associated with pimples or minor sunburns, she says, also by constricting blood vessels.

Adrenal puberty is marked by changes like the growth of body hair, pimples and aspects of cognitive maturation, but does not include breast development or the onset of menstruation for girls or testicular enlargement for boys.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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