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meconin
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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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