Usually means: Cancer originating from skin pigment cells.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanoma: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. melanoma: Merriam-Webster
  3. melanoma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. melanoma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. melanoma: Collins English Dictionary
  6. melanoma: Vocabulary.com
  7. Melanoma, melanoma: Wordnik
  8. melanoma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. melanoma: Wiktionary
  10. melanoma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. melanoma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. melanoma: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. melanoma: Dictionary.com
  14. melanoma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. melanoma: Rhymezone
  16. melanoma: FreeDictionary.org
  17. melanoma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. melanoma: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Melanoma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanoma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanoma: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Melanoma: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Melanoma: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. Melanoma: Scleroderma
  10. Melanoma: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  11. melanoma: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  13. melanoma: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  16. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  17. Melanoma: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanoma: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See melanomas as well.)

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

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