meconium en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).
Meanings
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(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.
1915, John Lovett Morse, Fritz Bradley Talbot, Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding, New York: MacMillan, page 78:
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Opium.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| meconiums | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
meconium aspiration · meconic · meconium ileus
Synonyms
pin gon · fi-do-nie · dream stick · skee · Chinese tobacco · zero · pen yan · aunti/aunti Emma · ope · God's medicine · gondola · toxy · dopium · ze · yen · pox · midnight oil · chandu · mud · goric · guma · big O · hop/hops · gee · meconium · dream gun · when-shee
Translations (20)
it meconio (contents of the fetal intestines) · ms mekonium (contents of the fetal intestines) · sw mekoniamu (contents of the fetal intestines) · sv mekonium (contents of the fetal intestines) · pt mecónio (contents of the fetal intestines) · ca meconi (contents of the fetal intestines) · ur عِقی (contents of the fetal intestines) · ko 태변 (contents of the fetal intestines) · fi lapsenpihka (contents of the fetal intestines) · ro meconiu (contents of the fetal intestines) · pt mecônio (contents of the fetal intestines) · ar عقي (contents of the fetal intestines) · cy meconiwm (contents of the fetal intestines) · de Kindspech (contents of the fetal intestines) · ga meacóiniam (contents of the fetal intestines) · sv barnbeck (contents of the fetal intestines) · es alhorre (contents of the fetal intestines) · cs smolka (contents of the fetal intestines) · es meconio (contents of the fetal intestines) · pl smółka (contents of the fetal intestines)