meconisin Chem.
(miːˈkɒnɪsɪn)
Also -iasin.
[Arbitrarily varied from meconin.]
(See quots.)
| 1887 Brunton Pharmacol. (ed. 3) §5. xxxi. 846 The neutral substances [in opium] are meconin and meconiasin. 1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. II. 122 Meconisin C8H10O2. A crystallizable neutral principle discovered in opium by T. and H. Smith (1878). |