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meconium Definition


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meconium
noun
    1. medicine.
      The first faeces passed by a baby after birth, or occasionally just before birth, which are dark-greenish and sticky.
Etymology: 18c; 17c in obsolete sense ‘poppy juice': Latin, from Greek mekon poppy.



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