1849 — William Tyler Smith, Parturition and the Principles and Practice of Obstetrics, page 270
The Meconium generally purges the new-born infant, and a meconic diarrhoea may occur soon after delivery, accompanied by considerable pain, and a tenesmus of the lower bowel.
1906 — O. B. Server, "Medical Terms in the New English Dictionary", "The Medical Library", The American Physician (September), page 14
The medical meanings found under such words as […] meconium and meconic come into suggestive juxtaposition.
1921 — Walter Long Williams, Walter Wilkinson Williams, The Diseases of the Genital Organs of Domestic Animals, page 655
In examining aborts meconic pellets are commonly found in the stomach: that is, prior to death the fetus had defecated and then swallowed its excrement.
1977 — D. K. Guha-Ray, "Intrauterine spontaneous depression of fetal skull: a case report and review of literature", published in Excerpta Medica, Volume 31, Section 10: Obstetrics and gynecology, page 246
With a view of establishing a relationship between the intensity of meconic color and a higher incidence of depression the studies were continued […]
2017 — Donald Meltzer (edited by Marisa Pelella Mélega), "Confusional states and a childish erotic transference", Meltzer in Sao Paulo, page 137
I suppose this glass of meconic fluid is really meconium, the fluid in the womb soiled with meconium.
Adjective: "of or pertaining to opium poppies (mecon)"edit
1897 — Charles Saunders Melville Dundas, "Christiana", published in Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance: Annual series, Volumes 1875-1925, page 87
At the same time, it was only during the last months of the year that the meconic pulp showed a better tendency.
1977 — Frank Edwin Egler, The Nature of Vegetation, Its Management and Mismanagement: An Introduction to Vegetation Science, page 4
The whole is a meconic opiate that is absolutely lethal to scientific progress.
1983 — Major Ramnath (retired), "The Indian War Memorial" Sainik Samachar: Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces (October 16), page 5
It is amazing that the meconic poppy and rhododendron abound in the interspersing space amid graves.
