Meconium

Origin

From Latin mēcōnium ("opium; excrement of a newborn child"), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον ("poppy-juice, opium"), from μήκων ("poppy").

Full definition of meconium

Noun

1. (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
2. (obsolete) opium

Derived terms

• meconium aspiration

Anagrams

• encomium