Look up: Melanoma

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   melanoma
   [n] - any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes
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   Melanoma
   (malignant melanoma) A particular type of skin cancer. The cancer develops from the cells that produce the skin pigment, melanin. Malignant melanoma in the skin usually develops from an existing mole, but this is not always the case. Much more rarely, it can begin in the eye and, even more rarely, in an internal body organ. If MM is found early, be...
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   Melanoma
   a skin tumour composed of cells called melanocytes
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   Melanoma
   A cancer of the pigment-forming cells of the skin or the retina of the eye.
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   Melanoma
   A tumour consisting of darkly pigmented cells.
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   Melanoma
   Our Melanoma Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Melanoma Melanoma: The most dangerous form of skin cancer, a malignancy of the melanocyte, the cell that produces pigment in the skin. Melanoma is most common in people with fair skin, but can occur in people with all skin colors. Most melanomas present as a d ...
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   melanoma
   Neoplasia derived from melanocytes; benign forms are moles, but often are highly malignant. Generally the cells contain melanin granules and for this reason they have been used in studies on metastasis because the secondary tumours are easily located in lung.
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   Melanoma
   Mel`a·no'ma noun ; Latin plural - nomata . [ New Latin ; Greek ..., ..., black + -oma .] (Medicine) (a) A tumor containing dark pigment. (b) Development of dark-pigmented tumors.
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   melanoma
   <oncology, tumour> A tumour arising from the melanocytic system of the skin and other organs. When used alone the term refers to malignant melanoma. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    melanoma
    malignant melanoma noun any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes
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    Melanoma
    `Melanoma` is a malignant tumor of melanocytes which are found predominantly in skin but also in the bowel and the eye (see uveal melanoma). It is one of the rarer types of skin cancer but causes the majority of skin cancer related deaths. Despite many years of intensive laboratory and clinical research, the sole effective cure is surgical resection of the primary tumor before it achieves a thickness greater than 1 mm. Around 160,000 new c...
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    melanoma
    (mel″ә-no´mә) a tumor arising from the melanocytic system of the skin and other organs. malignant melanoma.
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    Melanoma
    • (n.) A tumor containing dark pigment. • (n.) Development of dark-pigmented tumors.
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    melanoma
    a spreading and frequently recurring cancer of specialized skin cells (melanocytes) that produce the protective skin-darkening pigment melanin. In ... [5 related articles]
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    melanoma
    (melano- + -oma) a tumour arising from the melanocytic system of the skin and other organs. When used alone the term refers to malignant melanoma.
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    melanoma
    A malignant neoplasm, derived from cells that are capable of forming melanin, arising most commonly in the skin of any part of the body, or in the eye, and, rarely, in the mucous membranes of the genitalia, anus, oral cavity, or other sites; occurs mostly in adults and may originate de novo or from a pigmented nevus or lentigo maligna. In the early...
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    melanoma
    A form of skin cancer that begins in melanocytes – the cells that make the brown pigment melanin. Melanoma usually starts in a mole. The skin is the body’s largest organ. It protects against heat, sunlight, injury, and infection. The skin has two main layers: the epidermis (upper or outer la...
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    melanoma
    melanoma: see skin cancer.
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