Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
A term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines.
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Examples for "ptomain "
1 You find a bacillus here, a ptomain there.
1 For ptomaine poisoning had unexpectedly hastened the end of old Mr. Godwin.
2 Selmi announced the existence of what he called ptomaine in 1870.
3 I understand there is always a danger of ptomaine poisoning with such things.
4 Johnny had evidently never heard of ptomaine - poisoning , for nothing came amiss.
5 This is the essential point and will prevent ptomaine poisoning.
6 My farewell gift may be ptomaine , for all I know.
7 Fourth: More apt to putrefy and thus give ptomaine poisoning.
8 It was a combination of crotalin venom and ptomaine poisons, a very deadly mess.
9 Maybe we'll all die of ptomaine , or decide to hang ourselves in our cells.
10 There are restaurants which specialize in ptomaine and restaurants which specialize in sinister vegetable messes.
11 Attacks of acute indigestion resulting from this cause are much like the so-called ptomaine poisoning.
12 Whatever there may have been in the body before, certainly they produced a cadaveric ptomaine conine.
13 As the use of canned goods becomes more and more extensive, ptomaine poisoning is more frequent.
14 Their main difficulty was dysentery and ptomaine poisoning.
15 A hundred years ago there were no bacilli, no ptomaine poisoning, no diphtheria, and no appendicitis.
16 Dec. 17-ManyGermans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.
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