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n. - Enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin.

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  • Morgan had an inherited skin condition called rhinophyma, which is excess growth of sebaceous tissue.
  • A-- actually, a virulent form of adolescent acne is often a precursor to this sk -- skin condition, called rhinophyma, that he had later in his life.
  • The poor thing seems to have rhinophyma, which has caused his poor little nose to turn bright red, even seeming to glow!
  • It can generate mild flushing, persistent redness, or the more severe papular kind of acne rosacea with bumpy pimples and sometimes thickening of the skin rhinophyma.
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