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Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes
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melanoma
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oncology disease English) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tumor containing melanin," 1826, medical Latin, from Greek melas (genitive melanos ) "black" (see melanin ) + -oma .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE malignant ▪ One type of skin cancer is malignant melanoma . ▪ I would like to know in what proportion of the control patients the referring general practitioner considered the diagnosis of malignant melanoma . ▪ ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
malignant melanoma \malignant melanoma\ n. (Med.), Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes; called also melanoma . It is classed as a type of skin cancer.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes [syn: malignant melanoma ] [also: melanomata (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Melanoma , also known as malignant melanoma , is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes . Melanomas typically occur in the skin but may rarely occur in the mouth, intestines , or eye . In women they most commonly ...
Usage examples of melanoma.
They were the House of God disasters, mostly young men and women with horrible diseases just past cure and just our side of death, diseases with rotting names like leukemia, melanoma, hepatoma, lymphoma, carcinoma, and all the other horrendomas for which there was no cure in this world or in any other.
In a few instances, there seemed to be significant shrinkage of metastatic melanoma and kidney cancer.
Melanoma, Miasma, Treblinka, and Polyploidy in favor of one that sounded safe: Salmonella.
The miles of night between Marla and me offer insects and melanomas and flesh-eating viruses.
Even the melanomas on her arms and the back of her neck have disappeared.
These blocks were required of all the settlers because of the tremendous increase in melanomas that were experienced on their earlier journeys.
Ours was a glamorous career, despite the slight risk of developing melanoma T, the vicious carcinoma triggered by long exposure to fusion fields.
Graveline was not alarmed, because he knew how Chemo had come to look this way: It was not melanoma, but a freak electrolysis accident in Scranton, many years before.
I can reverse carcinomatous progressions, even the dreaded melanomae, what you would call black cancers.
Bone cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, and melanoma - skin cancer, in other words - are the most common.
The malignant melanoma form, which does kill, affects places like the soles of the feet and underarm as well as exposed areas, and there is more of it in Sweden than in Spain.
The trouble I've been having with my toe is due to a rather vicious disorder, malignant melanoma.
Sunscreen lotions protect well against the less serious forms of skin cancer, but they have little or no ability to prevent melanoma.