acne

/ˈækni/

/ˈækni/

Acne is a skin condition that causes pimples or even a red rash to pop up on your face and sometimes your back and shoulders. Teenagers are often affected by acne, which is a real bummer when you’re trying to flirt.

When you have acne, your skin is red and pimpled. Acne shows up on the face because that’s where you have more sebaceous glands, which are glands that produce oils to protect and annoy mammals. Acne also shows up on backs and shoulders, but it can really pop up anywhere on your body. Teenagers often get acne, because those fun hormonal surges of puberty cause an uptick in oil production. Adults can get acne as well. Great.

Definitions of acne

1. noun

   an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
   types:

   acne rosacea, rosacea

   a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance

   acne vulgaris

   the most common form of acne; usually affects people from puberty to young adulthood

   hickey, pimple, zit

   a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

   papule

   a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox)

   pustule

   a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus

   type of:

   inflammatory disease

   a disease characterized by inflammation

   disease of the skin, skin disease, skin disorder

   a disease affecting the skin