melanoma

English

Etymology

melano- +‎ -oma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛləˈnoʊmə/
• enPR: mĕlănōmä

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• Rhymes: -əʊmə

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.

Usage notes

The term malignant melanoma is synonymous with melanoma in present-day medicine because the molecular biologic understanding and convened terminology of benign and malignant cutaneous neoplasms have been refined since the term melanoma entered use. While this makes malignant melanoma technically redundant, the term remains in frequent use alongside its now-synonymous counterpart. More details are offered at Melanoma § Terminology.

Synonyms

• black cancer (see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880)
• (variant) Melanome (see The Washington Post citation from 1904)

Derived terms

• antimelanoma
• melanomagenesis
• melanomal
• melanomatous
• nonmelanoma

 

See also

• carcinoma

Translations

type of skin tumor

• Asturian: melanoma f
• Catalan: melanoma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑色素瘤 (hēisèsùliú)

• Czech: melanom (cs) m
• Danish: melanom n
• Dutch: melanoom (nl)
• Esperanto: melanomo
• Estonian: melanoom (et)
• Finnish: melanooma (fi)
• French: mélanome (fr) m
• Galician: melanoma m
• German: Melanom (de) n
• Greek: μελάνωμα (el) n (melánoma)
• Hungarian: melanóma (hu)
• Icelandic: sortuæxli n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: melanomo (io)
• Interlingua: melanoma
• Italian: melanoma (it) m
• Japanese: 黒色腫 (こくしょくしゅ, kokushokushu), メラノーマ (meranōma)
• Korean: 흑색증(黑色症) (heuksaekjeung)
• Latin: melanoma f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melanom n

• Occitan: melanòma m
• Polish: czerniak (pl) m, czerniak złośliwy m
• Portuguese: melanoma (pt) m
• Russian: мелано́ма (ru) f (melanóma)
• Spanish: melanoma (es) m
• Swedish: melanom
• Turkish: melanom

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Asturian

Noun

melanoma f (plural melanomes)

1. melanoma (type of skin tumor)

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Catalan

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomes)

1. (oncology) melanoma

Further reading

• “melanoma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melanoma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “melanoma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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Italian

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomi)

1. (oncology) melanoma

Anagrams

• alenammo, anelammo

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Portuguese

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

1. (oncology) melanoma (type of skin tumour)

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Spanish

Etymology

Ancient Greek μέλανος (mélanos) +‎ -oma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melaˈnoma/ [me.laˈno.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Hyphenation: me‧la‧no‧ma

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

1. melanoma

Further reading

• “melanoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014