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What does "melanoma" actually mean?


I was just curious about what latin words made up melanoma...

Latin > Greek "melas" = black
Greek "oma" = morbid growth/tumor

melan...having to do with skin pigmentation,(color), and oma, is the condition, (growth)

Medically It means black tumor. Melanoma usually means black, which indicates cancer, usually skin cancer.

it is a word used for cancer of the eye

Not sure about the latin history of the word, but, you probobly already know, melanoma is skin cancer.

It doesn't break it down to "latin words" . It simply states that melanoma is from the "new latin"

Etymology: New Latin
1 : a tumor containing dark pigment

Mela means burst
and oma means tumor

melano means black
oma means tumor

Black tumor of the skin

Hi, I answered someone about the possibility of a different type of cancer at
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Also, here's a link to my page on melanoma at
http://www.soulwellmall.com/melanoma.htm...
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