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melanotic

melanotic adjective: relating to melanosis.

Adjective

melanotic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to melanosis.
    • In the first place truly neoplastic melanomas are uncommon before puberty; anomalously, such lesions may be trichotic, whereas hair-bearing melanotic lesions in adults rarely become malignant.1955, The New England Journal of Medicine, page 21

Words formed from melanotic

Questions about melanotic

What does melanotic mean?
Melanotic means relating to melanosis.
What part of speech is melanotic?
Melanotic is an adjective.

Words near melanotic in the dictionary

  1. melanostibite
  2. melanotaeniid
  3. melanotaeniids
  4. melanotekite
  5. melanothallite
  6. melanotic
  7. melanotically
  8. melanotransferrin
  9. melanotrope
  10. melanotropes
  11. melanotroph

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