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melaena


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Melaena  \Me*l[ae]"na\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  me`las,  m.,  me`laina, 
  f.,  black.]  (Med.) 
  A  discharge  from  the  bowels  of  black  matter,  consisting  of 
  altered  blood. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  melaena 
  n  :  abnormally  dark  tarry  feces  containing  blood  (usually  from 
  gastrointestinal  bleeding)  [syn:  {melena}] 




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