- ameliaThe congenital absence of one or more limbs.
- dulcimerA stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- melodramaA kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
- melosThe melody in Ancient Greek music.
- acromesomeliaA form of dwarfism characterised by both acromelia and mesomelia
- amelicBorn without limbs.
- hemimeliaThe congenital absence of part of one or more limbs. With legs, usually clarified as pedal (foot), fibular (outer lower leg), tibial (inner lower leg), or full hemimelia. With arms, usually clarified as manual, radial, ulnar, or full hemimelia.
- melicOf or pertaining to Greek lyric verse.
- melo-Music.
- melomaniacOne with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.
- meromeliaA birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
- micromeliaThe condition in which a limb is abnormally shortened.
- nanomeliaAn extreme form of micromelia.
- polymeliaA congenital defect characterized by extra limbs
- rhizomeliaA disproportion of the length of the proximal limb, such as the shortened limbs of achondroplasia.
- tetra-ameliaA particular congenital disorder, whose main symptom is the lack of legs, arms, and hands.