"meconium" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: meconiums [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊniəm Etymology: From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|mēcōnium||opium; excrement of a newborn child}} Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), {{der|en|grc|μηκώνιον||poppy-juice, opium}} Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), {{m|grc|μήκων||poppy}} μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”) Head templates: {{en-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 feces of the newborn. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine, Babies, Feces Translations (contents of the fetal intestines): عقي (Arabic), meconi [masculine] (Catalan), smolka [feminine] (Czech), lapsenpihka (Finnish), Kindspech [neuter] (German), meacóiniam [masculine] (Irish), meconio [masculine] (Italian), 태변 (taebyeon) (Korean), mekonium (Malay), smółka [feminine] (Polish), mecônio [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), mecónio [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), meconiu [neuter] (Romanian), meconio [masculine] (Spanish), alhorre [masculine] (Spanish), barnbeck [neuter] (Swedish), mekonium [neuter] (Swedish), meconiwm [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-meconium-en-noun-u7bbzBi~ Disambiguation of Babies: 94 6 Disambiguation of Feces: 94 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'contents of the fetal intestines': 95 5
  2. (obsolete) Opium. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Synonyms: opium
    Sense id: en-meconium-en-noun-LF-dfHbh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meconium aspiration, meconium ileus

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