Melanoma Definition

mĕlə-nōmə
melanomas, melanomata
noun
melanomas
A skin tumor, esp. a malignant one, derived from cells capable of melanin formation.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • malignant melanoma

Other Word Forms of Melanoma

Noun

Singular:
melanoma
Plural:
melanomas, melanomata

Origin of Melanoma

  • Latin, from Ancient Greek μέλας (melas, “black, dark") and -oma (“disease, morbidity").

    From Wiktionary

Melanoma Sentence Examples

  • In addition, primary skin tumors such as melanoma have a predilection to spread to the liver.

  • Mouth cancers have a higher proportion of deaths per number of cases than breast cancer, cervical cancer or skin melanoma.

  • Also the lymph glands nearest to the scar site will be examined, to ensure that the melanoma has not spread.

  • Between 8 and 10cm, a melanoma is said to be ' the size of a very small grapefruit ', and so on.

  • We thus found a high frequency of allele-specific and locus-specific down-regulation of HLA expression in uveal melanoma cell lines.

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Words Starting With

MMEMEL

Words Ending With

AMAOMA

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With M and Ending With A

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With M8 Letter Words Ending With A