OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32460

meconium

/mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alhorre • meconio
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.
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