Meconin

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Meconin, n. [Cf. F. méconine.].

A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid. [1913 Webster]

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