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Definition: Meconium |
MeconiumNoun1. Thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Meconium \Me*co"ni*um\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from poppy.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | The thick green-to-black mucilaginous material found in the intestines of a full-term fetus. It consists of secretions of the intestinal glands, bile pigments, fatty acids, amniotic fluid, and intrauterine debris. It constitutes the first stools passed by a newborn. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name literally means "poppy juice" in Latin.
See also: Meconium aspiration syndrome
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meconium."
Crosswords: Meconium |
| Specialty definitions using "meconium": Meconium Aspiration, Mice, Inbred CFTR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Meconium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (meconium). |
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Health | CF should be suspected in babies born with an intestinal blockage called meconium ileus. (references) | |
Newborns with CF may develop a condition called meconium ileus, in which the small intestine is obstructed by a plug of meconium, the material in the newborn gastrointestinal tract. (references) | ||
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| "Meconium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meconium" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
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Expression using "meconium": Meconium Aspiration. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meconium | 64 |
meconium aspiration | 20 |
ileus meconium | 11 |
meconium aspiration syndrome | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "meconium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mekonium, meconium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | meconium (big O, black stuff, opium), kindspek, darmspek, darmpek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mekonium, meconium, lapsenpihka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | méconium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mohnsaft (big O, black stuff, opium), Mekonium, Meconium (big O, black stuff, opium), Kindspech. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μηκώνιο, μηκόνιον. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | meconio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econiummay mecónio, malinas. (various references) meconio. (various references) mekonium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | meconium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meconium": meconiums. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "meconium" (pronounced 'Me*co"ni*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: encomium. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-m-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: commune. | |
-2 letters: commie, conium, cummin, immune, income, muonic, neumic. | |
-3 letters: cumin, mimeo, mince, monie, mucin, onium, ounce. | |
-4 letters: cine, cion, coin, come, cone, coni, emic, icon, memo, meno, menu, meou, mice, mien, mime, mine, mome, momi, moue, muni, muon, neum, nice, nome, omen, once, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: con, cue, cum, ecu, emu, eon, ice, ion. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-m-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: comminute, communise, communize, encomiums, meconiums. | |
+2 letters: comminuted, comminutes, communique, communised, communises, communized, communizes, compendium. | |
+3 letters: communalize, communicate, communiques, communities, compendiums, consumerism, immunogenic, uncommitted. | |
+4 letters: communalized, communalizes, communicable, communicated, communicatee, communicates, consumerisms, consummative, incommutable, minicomputer, uncommercial. | |
+5 letters: communalities, communicatees, communicative, decamethonium, excommunicate, immunochemist, immunogenetic, intercommunal, medicamentous, minicomputers, telecommuting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 63 6F 6E 69 75 6D |
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