Wondering how to use Meconium in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as feces or faeces.
Meconium in a sentence
Meconium meaning
- A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
- Opium.
Using Meconium
- The main meaning on this page is: A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn. | Opium.
- Useful related words include: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces.
- In the example corpus, meconium often appears in combinations such as: meconium ileus, meconium is, with meconium.
Context around Meconium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Meconium
- In this selection, "meconium" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fluid, enema, terminal, ileus, aspiration and plug stand out and add context to how "meconium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affected by meconium aspiration would and amniotic fluid meconium aspiration syndrome. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "meconium" sits close to words such as aboriginals, abstractly and accidentals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with meconium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Meconium (thankfully) disappears with the start of milk feeding. (9 words)
Meconium ileus has a significant risk of intestinal perforation. (9 words)
Meconium may completely block the intestines and cause serious illness. (10 words)
After birth, a foal's navel is dipped in antiseptic to prevent infection, it is sometimes given an enema to help clear the meconium from its digestive tract, and the newborn is monitored to ensure that it stands and nurses without difficulty. (42 words)
Of the cases where meconium is found in the amniotic fluid, meconium aspiration syndrome develops less than 5 percent of the time. citation Amniotic fluid is normally clear, but becomes greenish if it is tinted with meconium. (37 words)
Meconium is normally stored in the infant's intestines until after birth, but sometimes (often in response to fetal distress and hypoxia) it is expelled into the amniotic fluid prior to birth, or during labor. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Of the cases where meconium is found in the amniotic fluid, meconium aspiration syndrome develops less than 5 percent of the time. citation Amniotic fluid is normally clear, but becomes greenish if it is tinted with meconium.
About 20% of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20% of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.
In barium enema, meconium plug syndrome rather shows normal or dilated colon as compared to micro-colon in meconium ileus.
Terminal meconium Most of the time that the amniotic fluid is stained with meconium it will be homogeneously distributed throughout the fluid making it brown.
The newborn had difficulties breathing, and the doctors soon realized she'd swallowed meconium in the womb, requiring a 10-day course of antibiotics.
Baby poo comes in a range of different colours, when they’re born, for the first few days it’s often black which is called meconium.
Meconium (thankfully) disappears with the start of milk feeding.
The following day, traces of meconium – a baby's first poo – were detected, which can be a sign of distress in a baby.
The incident came to light after the infant’s father posted on Facebook, detailing how the absence of doctors during his wife’s delivery allegedly led to severe complications when their newborn inhaled meconium.
After birth, a foal's navel is dipped in antiseptic to prevent infection, it is sometimes given an enema to help clear the meconium from its digestive tract, and the newborn is monitored to ensure that it stands and nurses without difficulty.
Causes Fetal distress during labor causes intestinal contractions, as well as relaxation of the anal sphincter, which allows meconium to pass into the amniotic fluid and contaminate the amniotic fluid.
Fifty percent of newborns affected by meconium aspiration would die fifteen years ago; however, today the percent has dropped to about twenty.
In the USA, the results of meconium testing may be used by child protective services and other law enforcement agencies to determine the eligibility of the parents to keep the newborn.
Meconium can be tested for various drugs, to check for in utero exposure.
Meconium had been thought to be sterile until the team of researchers from the University of Valencia in Spain found bacterial communities in it so developed that they seemed to fall into two categories.
Meconium ileus has a significant risk of intestinal perforation.
Meconium is normally stored in the infant's intestines until after birth, but sometimes (often in response to fetal distress and hypoxia) it is expelled into the amniotic fluid prior to birth, or during labor.
Meconium may completely block the intestines and cause serious illness.
Meconium passage into the amniotic fluid occurs in about 5–20 percent of all births and is more common in overdue births.
Meconium, unlike later feces, is viscous and sticky like tar, its color usually being a very dark olive green; it is almost odorless.
Common combinations with meconium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- meconium ileus 4×
- meconium is 3×
- with meconium 3×
- of meconium 3×
- meconium aspiration 2×