meconin Chem.
(ˈmiːkənɪn)
Also -ine.
[ad. F. méconine, f. Gr. µήκων poppy: see -in1.]
A white, crystalline, neutral compound existing in opium, regarded as an anhydride of meconic acid. Cf. meconia.
| 1833 Lond. & Edin. Philos. Mag. II. 156 Meconine was discovered in opium, by M. Couerbe in 1830. 1874 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 202 Meconine or Opianyl acts on man as a mild hypnotic. 1890 Syd. Soc. Lex., Meconin resin, a resin which falls on the addition of water to the chlorine-holding fluid from which mechlorinic acid has been obtained. |