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Melena vs Melene - What's the difference?

melena | melene |

As nouns the difference between melena and melene

is that melena is a passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, as the result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding while melene is an unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax.

melena

English

(wikipedia melena)

Alternative forms

* melaena *

Noun

  • A passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, as the result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    melene

    English

    Noun

  • (organic compound) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax.

    • Synonyms

    * melissene * melissylene (Webster 1913) ----