Whitehead
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1.
a small pimple having a white or yellowish head; milium.
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Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
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Alfred North. 1861–1947, English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell in writing Principia Mathematica (1910–13), and developed a holistic philosophy of science, chiefly in Process and Reality (1929)
whitehead white·head (wīt’hěd’)
n.
A tiny epidermal cystlike mass with a narrow or obstructed opening on the skin surface, which may rupture, caused by the retention of secretions of a sebaceous gland. Also called closed comedo.
See milium.
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