melæna

See also: melaena

English

Noun

melæna (countable and uncountable, plural melænas or melænæ)

Obsolete form of melena.
- 1891, Charles Hilton Fagge; Philip Henry Pye‐Smith, Text‐book of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, volume II, page 178:
  Dr Chambers records a case in which it appeared certain that a gradual oozing of blood, causing continued melæna, was arrested by dilute sulphuric acid, with Battley’s solution of opium.

French

Noun

melæna m (plural melænas)

Alternative form of méléna

Further reading

“melæna”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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