"meconium" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/ [UK] 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”) 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 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: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 89 11 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'contents of the fetal intestines': 97 3
  2. (obsolete) Opium. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Feces Synonyms: opium
    Sense id: en-meconium-en-noun-LF-dfHbh Disambiguation of Feces: 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meconium aspiration, meconium ileus

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "meconiwm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meconium"
}

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