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"Melena (Tarry Stools)" (details from "Garden of Heavenly Delights "), 1500 Hieronimus van Aeken (known as Bosco or Bosch ) (1450 - 1516) El Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
MELENA implies "Tarry" stools - a medical sign of gastro-intestinal bleeding (see Med-Word companion reviews). The related terms (search key words - melanin, melanosis, melano ...). Melena is often associated with diarrhea or "loose" feces (see companion reviews of the complexities of "dia" as in dialysis, diabetes, galactorrhea, etc.)
In Spanish, "melena, melenudo" denote abundance of "head-hair", and perhaps this similarity reflects that the majority of the population had dark black hair.
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