mecono-, mecon-

Outdated, opium withdrawal pains in an addict: In his father's very old medical dictionary, Tom read about meconalgia being the suffering of an addicted person when trying to cease the intake of opium.

A reference to an acid found in opium.

1. Poppy juice.
2. Opium.
3. In medicine, a dark green mucilaginous material in the intestine of the full term fetus, being a mixture of the secretions of the intestinal glands and some amniotic fluid.
4. The dark greenish feces that have collected in the intestines of an unborn baby and are released shortly after birth [from "poppy juice", hence "newborn baby's feces" because of the similarity in color].
5. The waste products of a pupa or other embryonic form.
6. The contents of the intestine of a new-born mammal.

1. A treatise on the poppy or opium.
2. The study of poppies and opium.

Divination with the use of sleep: Sometimes meconomancy was performed with opium, or sleep was induced with other drugs, and the effects were observed and interpreted while a person was slumbering or dozing.

Eating opium.

An opium eater or one who eats opium.

The consumption of or the eating of opium.

In botany, a plant that is similar in appearance to the poppy.