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Definition of Ptomaines
1. ptomaine [n] - See also: ptomaine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptomaines
Literary usage of Ptomaines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"Thus far fatal poisonings from this alkaloid have not occurred and nothing is
known as to the possibility of its detection in the cadaver. ptomaines ..."
2. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"Thus far fatal poisonings from this alkaloid have not occurred and nothing is
known as to the possibility of its detection in the cadaver. ptomaines ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"The ptomaines are bodies analogous to the vegetable alkaloids, produced in the
... Contrary to the general impression, the majority of known ptomaines are ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"The ptomaines are bodies analogous to the vegetable alkaloids, produced in the
putrefactive decomposition of animal tissues and other nitrogenous organic ..."
5. A Text-book of Bacteriology by George Miller Sternberg (1901)
"Some of these ptomaines are non-toxic, and others are very poisonous in minute
doses (toxines). The toxic substances sometimes developed in milk, cheese, ..."
6. Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry by Frantz Peckel Møller, Peter Møller Heyerdahl (1895)
"ptomaines We have already mentioned those whose structures are known, viz. ...
In cod-liver oil, prepared from putrefied liver, several ptomaines were ..."
7. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"BY G. BARGER, MA, D. Sc. The ptomaines are bases produced in the putrefactive
decomposition ... In 1883 Brieger began his extensive researches on ptomaines; ..."
8. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1900)
"Attention should be called to certain misapprehensions concerning ptomaines and
to a common laxity of the use of the term. ..."
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