Definify.com
Definition 2024
melæna
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.
- 1891, Charles Hilton Fagge, Philip Henry Pye‐Smith, Text‐book of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Volume II, page 178: