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meconium

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/mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/(UK)

Definition of meconium

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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
    “The meconium is dark brownish-green in color. The first meconium passed is semi-solid, having been partially dried out in the large intestine.”
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  1. (countable, uncountable)A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
    “The meconium is dark brownish-green in color. The first meconium passed is semi-solid, having been partially dried out in the large intestine.”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Opium.

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Etymology

From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).

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