Medical Definition of Melanoid
1. A dark pigment, resembling melanin, formed from glucosamines in chitin. Synonym: artificial melanin, factitious melanin. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanoid
Literary usage of Melanoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie, James Wardrop (1833)
"Other tubercles are formed near the surface of the liver, from which a fungus in
some cases grows, and protrudes externally. melanoid Tubercle of the Liter. ..."
2. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1865)
"... reason to believe that, by certain generally recognized processes of degeneration
or disease, a medullary or epithelial cancer may become melanoid, ..."
3. The Microscope in Its Application to Practical Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1858)
"The terms melanosis, melanoma, and melanoid, have been applied to those cellular
tumours which contain a considerable quantity of pigment. ..."
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