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meconiums

meconiums is the plural of meconium.

Meaning of meconium

Noun

meconium (countable and uncountable, plural meconiums)

  1. 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
  2. (obsolete) Opium.
    Synonyms:
    aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine

Questions about meconiums

What is meconiums the plural of?
Meconiums is the plural of meconium.

Words near meconiums in the dictionary

  1. meconin
  2. meconine
  3. meconinic acid
  4. meconium
  5. meconium ileus
  6. meconiums
  7. meconophagism
  8. meconophagist
  9. meconophagists
  10. meconopsis
  11. meconopsises

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