MELANOCYTES

Meaning of MELANOCYTES in English

Cells in the skin that produce and contain the pigment called melanin.

English dictionary of medicine. Английский словарь медицины. 2012

MELANOMA — noun (plural -mas; also ~ta) Etymology: New Latin Date: 1838 a tumor containing dark pigment, a highly malignant tumor that …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
VITILIGO — or leukoderma Skin disorder manifested by smooth, white spots on various parts of the body. Though the pigment-making cells of …
Английский словарь Британика
MELATONIN — ¦melə¦tōnə̇n noun ( -s ) Etymology: probably from mela nocyte + sero tonin ; from its power to lighten melanocytes …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MSH — 1. Also called melanocyte-stimulating hormone, melanotropin . Biochem. a hormone, produced in vertebrates by the pituitary gland, that causes dispersal …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MELANOSOME — /meuh lan"euh sohm', mel"euh neuh-/ , n. Cell Biol. an organelle in melanocytes that synthesizes and stores melanin. [ 1935-40; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MELANOMA — /mel'euh noh"meuh/ , n. , pl. melanomas, melanomata /-meuh teuh/ . Pathol. any of several types of skin tumors characterized …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MELANOSOME — n. organelle in melanocytes that produces and stores melanin granules
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
MELANOMA — n. skin tumors characterized by malignant growth of melanocytes
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MELANOMA — noun ( plural -mas also mel·a·no·ma·ta -mə-tə) Etymology: New Latin Date: 1838 1. : a tumor containing dark pigment 2. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VITILIGO — also called leukoderma hereditary patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin. Though the pigment-making cells of the skin, or …
Britannica English vocabulary
SUNBURN — acute cutaneous inflammation caused by overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the so-called UVB wavelength band (290320 nanometre; a nanometre …
Britannica English vocabulary
NEURAL CREST — group of embryonic cells that are pinched off during the formation of the neural tube (the precursor of the spinal …
Britannica English vocabulary
MOLE — in zoology, any of numerous small, often blind, burrowing mammalsespecially the 22 species constituting the family Talpidae (order Insectivora), the …
Britannica English vocabulary
MELANOMA — a spreading and frequently recurring cancer of specialized skin cells (melanocytes) that produce the protective skin-darkening pigment melanin. In the …
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MELANIN — a dark biological pigment (biochrome) found in skin, hair, feathers, scales, eyes, and some internal membranes; it is also found …
Britannica English vocabulary
FRECKLE — also called ephelis, plural ephelides, a small, brownish, well-circumscribed, stainlike spot on the skin occurring most frequently in red- or …
Britannica English vocabulary
EPIDERMIS — in zoology, protective outermost portion of the skin. There are two layers of epidermis, the living basal layer, which is …
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
VITILIGO — n. or leukoderma Skin disorder manifested by smooth, white spots on various parts of the body. Though the pigment-making cells …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER — Skin cancer that does not involve melanocytes. Basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer are nonmelanoma skin cancers.
English Dictionary of Medicine
CANCER, MELANOMA — A skin cancer that begins in cells called melanocytes that can grow together to form benign (not cancerous) moles. A …
English Dictionary of Medicine
CANCER, MALIGNANT MELANOMA — A skin cancer that begins in cells called melanocytes that can grow together to form benign (not cancerous) moles. A …
English Dictionary of Medicine
OCULAR MELANOMA — A rare cancer of melanocytes (cells that produce thepigment melanin) found in the eye. Also called intraocular melanoma.
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
NONMELANOMATOUS — Having to do with skin cancer that develops in basal cells or squamous cells but not in melanocytes (pigment-producing cells …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER — Skin cancer that arises in basal cells or squamous cells but not in melanocytes (pigment-producing cells of the skin).
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
NEVUS — A benign growth on the skin, such as a mole. A mole is a cluster of melanocytes and surrounding supportive …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
MOLE — A benign growth on the skin (usually tan, brown, or flesh-colored) that contains a cluster of melanocytes and surrounding supportive …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
MELANOMA — A form of skin cancer that arises in melanocytes, the cells that produce pigment. Melanoma usually begins in a mole.
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
INTRAOCULAR MELANOMA — A rare cancer of melanocytes (cells that produce thepigment melanin) found in the eye. Also called ocular melanoma.
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms

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