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meconin

meconin


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meconin  \Mec"o*nin\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  m['e]conine.]  (Chem.) 
  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.