malignant melanoma

1. 1.

   any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

   Synonymsmelanoma

   Broaderskin cancer

Questions about malignant melanoma

What does malignant melanoma mean?

malignant melanoma means "any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes".

What is another word for malignant melanoma?

Close synonyms include melanoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malignant melanoma a common word?

malignant melanoma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.