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mela·noma (mel′ə nō)

noun pl. -·mas or -·mata-mə tə

a skin tumor, esp. a malignant one, derived from cells capable of melanin formation

Etymology: < ModL: see melano- & -oma

melanoma Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • skin: It is more common than cervical cancer in women or melanoma of the skin.

Converse of object

  • treat: Research into new ways of treating melanoma is going on all the time.
  • develop: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.
  • cause: Scientists do not know what causes melanoma in the eye.
  • include: On the next page there are some data on different forms of cancer including melanoma.
  • call: Skin cancer The most serious form of skin cancer is called malignant melanoma.

Adjective modifier

  • malignant: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.
  • uveal: An example of ( 2 ) would be a study of risk factors for uveal melanoma, or corneal ulcers.
  • metastatic: AB - The therapy of metastatic melanoma has not given satisfactory results.
  • choroidal: RESULTS: In all four cases, the patients were referred with the diagnosis of a small choroidal melanoma.
  • cutaneous: Location of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with cutaneous melanoma: new insights into lymphatic anatomy.
  • ocular: Ocular melanoma is a cancer tumor created by melanocytes cells in the eye.

Modifies a noun

  • metastasis: Thirty-one patients had a sentinel lymph node positive for melanoma metastasis.
  • antigen: Modifications in the anchor binding residues have resulted in higher affinity binding and better T-cell responses for several melanoma antigens ( Ref.
  • vaccine: Note, however, that since no melanoma vaccine as yet has FDA approval, the first criterion would not be met.
  • cell: The chemical appears to be effective against melanoma cells.
  • skin: Died of non melanoma skin cancer in England & Wales What causes skin cancer?
  • incidence: Increasing popularity of oversees holidays is partly blamed for an alarming rise in malignant melanoma incidence.

Noun used with modifier

  • skin: Mouth cancers have a higher proportion of deaths per number of cases than breast cancer, cervical cancer or skin melanoma.
  • cell: One patient who died of metastases had epithelioid cell type melanoma.

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  6. melanize
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  8. melanism
  9. melanin
  10. Melanie
  1. melanophore
  2. melanosis
  3. melanosome
  4. melanous
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