melanoma

Noun

 * 1)  A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

Usage notes
The term malignant melanoma is synonymous with in present-day medicine because the molecular biologic understanding and convened terminology of benign and malignant cutaneous neoplasms have been refined since the term melanoma entered use. While this makes malignant melanoma technically redundant, the term remains in frequent use alongside its now-synonymous counterpart. More details are offered at Melanoma § Terminology.

Synonyms

 * black cancer (see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880)
 * (variant) Melanome (see The Washington Post citation from 1904)

Translations

 * Asturian: melanoma
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑色素瘤
 * Czech:
 * Danish: melanom
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: melanomo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: melanoma
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sortuæxli
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: melanoma
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 黒色腫, メラノーマ
 * Korean: 흑색증(黑色症)
 * Latin: melanoma
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: melanom
 * Occitan: melanòma
 * Polish:, czerniak złośliwy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: melanom

Noun

 * 1)  type of skin tumor

Noun

 * 1)   type of skin tumour

Etymology
From.