meconium
pronunciation
How to pronounce meconium in British English:
UK [mə'kəʊnɪəm]
How to pronounce meconium in American English:
US [mə'koʊnɪrm]
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- Noun:
- thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
Word Origin
- meconium (n.)
- "fecal discharge from a newborn infant," 1706, from Latin meconium "excrement of a newborn child," literally "poppy juice," from Greek mekonion "poppy-juice, opium," diminutive of mekon "poppy" (perhaps cognate with Old Church Slavonic maku, German Mohn "poppy"). So called by classical physicians for its resemblance. Related: Meconial.
Example
- 1. Surfactant therapy in neonates with meconium aspiration syndrome Aspiration of gastric contents in pediatric anaesthesia : analysis of 49 cases
- 2. Explore the clinical intervention and treatment of meconium aspiration syndrome
- 3. Objective : To analyze the X-ray characters of meconium aspiration syndrome ( MAS ) and to improve the diagnosis .
- 4. Ambroxol bronchoalveolar lavage in prevention from neonatal meconium aspiration syndrome
- 5. Regional cerebral oxygen saturation in neonates with meconium aspiration syndrome