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‖ meconium|miːˈkəʊnɪəm|
[L. mēcōnium (Pliny), a. Gr. µηκώνιον (in senses 1 and 2 below), f. µήκων poppy.]
†1. The inspissated juice of the poppy; opium.
1601Holland Pliny II. 68. 1681 tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Meconium, the juice of the leaves and heads of poppy. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies II. 147 The meconium, or common opium is prepared by pressing the poppy heads that have been already cut. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 470 Meconium or poppies.—For excessive fluxes, and pains in the uterus.
2. The dark excrementitious substance in the large intestines of the fœtus; hence, the first fæces of a new-born infant.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 404 All of them [sc. new-born Infants] have a Meconium, or sort of dark colour'd Excrement in the Bowels. 1899J. Cagney tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. (ed. 4) 244 The term ‘meconium’ is applied to the substance discharged from the rectum of the child immediately after birth.
3. Ent. The fæces of an insect just transformed from the pupa.
1789Trans. Soc. Arts VII. 131 The elasticity of the silk, as the moths creep through, has the effect of pressing out a kind of red meconium. 1890in Century Dict.
4. ‘Applied to the black pigment of the choroid’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1890). |