Meanings of ptomaine (ptomaines) in English

As a result of this putrefaction there are produced certain ptomaines and leucomaines.

There are more than three score ptomaines, and half of them are poisonous.

I'd like to have a meal of nice nourishing ptomaines for a change.

Your nuciform sac is full of decaying matter-undigestedfood and waste products-rankptomaines.

The infectious forms of enteritis are caused by germs and ptomaines in the feed.

The toxic ptomaines are especially liable to create a local infection if nothing more.

No general reaction is known by which the ptomaines can be distinguished from the vegetable alkaloids.

Margarine and chlesterine, carbonates, sulphates, and ptomaines!

Moreover, there is a large class of which we are learning much which are called the ptomaines-fromptoma, a corpse.

Then, lo and behold, the Cetonia turns putrid and the Scolia dies, poisoned by the ptomaines of the decomposing game!

Indeed, ptomaines are present probably to a greater or less extent in every organ which is submitted to the toxicologist for examination.

The poisoning which has occasionally resulted from the eating of sausages, pork-pies, tinned meats, etc., is due to their having contained ptomaines.

Many bacteria are killed; but, on the other hand, the life of many blood cells is sacrificed by the bacteria poisoning them with ptomaines.

Septicæmia is a similar condition due to the presence of the putrefactive organisms themselves, and hence of their products, or ptomaines, also in the blood.

A Bibliography of Ptomaines accompanies Professor Victor C. Vaughan's work, Ptomaines and Leucomaines.

Ptomaines are chemical compounds of an alkaloidal nature formed in protein substances during putrefaction.