Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptomains
Literary usage of Ptomains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1908)
"ptomains and Toxins.—For evident reasons a high degree of interest attaches to
the poisonous products of bacteria. As might be anticipated, these products ..."
2. A Text Book of General Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost, Eugene Franklin McCampbell (1910)
"ptomains are basic nitrogenous substances and are found in the media on which
certain species of bacteria are growing. It was soon determined that ..."
3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost, Eugene Franklin McCampbell (1910)
"ptomains. — These substances were the first bacterial products to be recognized.
They were assumed to be alkaloidal in nature, and on account of the fact ..."
4. Examination of the Urine: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by George Alexander De Santos Saxe (1909)
"Some ptomains are highly poisonous and are styled toxins (Brieger), ... According to
Bouchard, Pouchet, and others, ptomains occur in normal urine and are ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"In addition, infecting microorganisms do harm to the host by virtue of their
offensive properties. ptomains When it was discovered that basic nitrogenous ..."
6. Examination of the Urine: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by George Alexander De Santos Saxe (1904)
"ptomains are complex organic substances, basic in character, resembling alkaloids in
... Some ptomains are highly poisonous and are styled toxins (Brieger), ..."
7. Cellular Toxins: Or, The Chemical Factors in the Causation of Disease by Victor Clarence Vaughan, Frederick George Novy (1902)
"CHEMISTRY OF THE ptomains. THE basic substances described in the following pages
are arranged, as far as possible, in the regular natural order. ..."
8. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: For Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"This is true more particularly of the ptomains, some of which are extremely toxic.
The acyclic ptomains which are free from oxygen comprise the following ..."
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