melanoma

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Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕlănōmä

Etymology

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

Noun

melanoma (plural melanomas or melanomata)

1. (oncology, pathology) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

Translations

type of skin tumor

Asturian: melanoma (ast) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 黑色素瘤 (cmn) (hēisèsùliú) Danish: melanom (da) Dutch: melanoom (nl) Esperanto: melanomo (eo) Estonian: melanoom (et) Finnish: melanooma (fi) French: mélanome (fr) m. German: Melanom (de) n. Greek: μελάνωμα (el) (melánoma) n. Icelandic: sortuæxli (is) n.

Ido: melanomo (io) Interlingua: melanoma (ia) Italian: melanoma (it) m. Japanese: 黒色腫 (ja) (こくしょくしゅ, kokushokushu), メラノーマ (ja) (meranōma) Korean: 흑색증 (ko) (heugsaekjeung) (黑色症 (ko)) Latin: melanoma (la) f. Portuguese: melanoma (pt) m. Russian: мелано́ма (ru) (melanóma) f. Spanish: melanoma (es) m. Swedish: melanom (sv) Turkish: melanom (tr)

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Noun

melanoma m. (plural melanomi)

1. (oncology) melanoma

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• anelammo