meconium

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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”).

Noun

meconium (countable and uncountable, plural meconiums)

  1. (medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn
  2. (obsolete) opium

Derived terms

  • meconium aspiration

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