Usually means: Cancer originating from skin pigment cells.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanoma: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. melanoma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melanoma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melanoma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melanoma: Vocabulary.com
  6. Melanoma, melanoma: Wordnik
  7. melanoma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. melanoma: Wiktionary
  9. melanoma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. melanoma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. melanoma: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. melanoma: Dictionary.com
  13. melanoma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. melanoma: Rhymezone
  15. melanoma: Free Dictionary
  16. melanoma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. melanoma: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. Melanoma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanoma: Encyclopedia

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

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

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

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  1. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)

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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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