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Melampyrite
- - The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
Melanagogue
- - A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
Melancholia
- noun - extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
Melancholic
- adjective - characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
- someone subject to melancholia
Melanchthon
- noun - German theologian and Luther's successor as leader of the Reformation in Germany (1497-1560)
Melanoblast
- noun - an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte
Melanochroi
- - A group of the human race, including the dark whites.
Melanocytes
- noun - a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone
Melanoderma
- noun - abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin
Melanoscope
- - An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.