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Definition of Ptomain

1. Noun. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.

Definition of Ptomain

1. ptomaine [n -S] - See also: ptomaine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptomain

Literary usage of Ptomain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Vaughan defines a ptomain as an organic chemical compound, ... In fact, most cases of so-called ptomain poisoning are really infections with microorganisms ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"tect nitrogenous matter; further, the products of fermentation are much less poisonous than some of the products of putrefaction. "ptomain" Poisoning. ..."

3. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"ptomain POISONING The cases of poisoning observed as a result of partaking of more or less articles of food—sausages (botulismus and ..."

4. Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Robert Leonard Emerson (1909)
"Salkowski and Brieger obtained from mussels a ptomain which they called ... there were no fatal terminations among these cases, ptomain ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Food Poisoning ptomain and ... Poisoning ptomain poisoning depends upon the putrefaction of food in which alkaloidal substances are formed. ..."

6. The Prevention of Disease: A Popular Treatise by Kenelm Winslow (1916)
"... clean milk supply has become more and more evident with the passing of the years and as a result of experience and study.. ptomain POISONING ..."

7. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1907)
"FOOD-INFECTION AND ptomain-POISONING. In recent years there have been reported an increasing number of cases of serious illness that have been traced to ..."

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