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What is meconium?

What is meconium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn
  2. (obsolete) opium
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Abdominal distension, delayed onset of bilious vomiting, and failure to pass meconium.
Evidence: The Medline database was searched for articles published in English from 2000 to 2008 on the topic of management of meconium at birth.
The meconium can be so thick in babies with cystic fibrosis that it blocks the intestine.
The small bowel is of narrow caliber distal to the meconium plug and dilated proximal to the meconium plugs.
When a Gastrografin enema is unsuccessful, laparotomy is indicated to evacuate the obstructing meconium by enterotomy irrigation.
In fetuses, intestinal obstruction may result from the production of viscid meconium.

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