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Definition of Meconium

1. Noun. Thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child.

Definition of Meconium

1. n. Opium.

Definition of Meconium

1. Noun. (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 ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) opium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meconium

1. the first fecal excretion of a newborn child [n -S]

Medical Definition of Meconium

1. The first stools of the newborn. Typically thick, viscous, sticky and dark green. Usually sterile and odourless. (27 Sep 1997)

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