melanoma

English

Etymology

melano- +‎ -oma

Pronunciation

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

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.

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 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)
• 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 (heugsaekjeung) (黑色症)
• Latin: melanoma f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melanom n

• 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

• anelammo

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Portuguese

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melaˈnoma/ [me.laˈno.ma]

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

1. melanoma

Further reading

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