melena

Meaning of melena

noun

the production of dark sticky faeces containing partly digested blood, as a result of internal bleeding or the swallowing of blood.

early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek melaina, feminine of melas ‘black’.

Information about melena

It is a name.
The plural form of melena is: melenas.
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Hyphenation of melena

me-lena

It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
melena is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of melena

Words that rhyme with melena

Lena, lena, Agalena, Alena, Emmalena, Galena, Madalena, Maddalena, Magdalena, Malena, Salena, galena, pseudogalena, scalena, Elena, Helena, Jelena, Madelena, Melena, Selena, Sthelena, Yelena, helena, triselena, Euglena, Uroglena, euglena, hypsiglena, Milena, cantilena, Molena, olena, Suplena, plena, Arlena, Charlena, Marlena, Orlena

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