méléna
French, noun\me.le.na\
méléna is a French masculine noun meaning “melena” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déjection de sang noir, pâteux et nauséabond mélangé ou non aux selles indiquant une digestion partielle et…”.
What does méléna mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemelena
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Déjection de sang noir, pâteux et nauséabond mélangé ou non aux selles indiquant une digestion partielle et que l’hémorragie se situe relativement haut dans le tube digestif.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of méléna
- mélénas plural
- melæna
- mélæna
- melaena
- mélaena
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méléna?
- \me.le.na\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is méléna in French?
méléna appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).