English Dictionary

meconium

noun

(medicine) 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. / (obsolete) Opium.

The doctor examined the baby's meconium for any abnormalities.

意味（1）

(medicine) 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.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Opium.