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Definition of Ptomaines

Ptomaine
Ptomaine Pto"ma*ine, n. [From Gr. ? a dead body.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

Meaning of Ptomaines from wikipedia

- invented in the 1920s by Thomas M. "Ptomaine Tommy" DeForest, who founded a sawdust-floored all-night restaurant, "Ptomaine Tommy's", located in the Lincoln...
- ISBN 978-3-8348-1245-2 Ludwig Brieger, "Weitere Untersuchungen über Ptomaine" [Further investigations into ptomaines] (Berlin, Germany: August Hirschwald, 1885), page 43...
- 1892 Merck's Bulletin stated, "We name such products of bacterial origin ptomaines; and the special alkaloid produced by the comma bacillus is variously...
- English. Ludwig Brieger, "Weitere Untersuchungen über Ptomaine" [Further investigations into ptomaines] (Berlin, Germany: August Hirschwald, 1885), page 43...
- of the Northern Party suffered intensely from other symptoms, including ptomaine poisoning. Under near-lethal conditions, the members of the Northern Party...
- perceived as Ptomaine Poisoning, caused by a fundamental flaw in understanding how it worked. While the medical establishment ditched Ptomaine theory by...
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- following the new germ theory of disease – that scurvy was caused by ptomaine, a waste product of bacteria, particularly in tainted tinned meat. Infantile...
- its 1922 successor Babbitt. Contemporary parodies of the book included Ptomaine Street, by Carolyn Wells, and Jane Street of Gopher Prairie, by James Stetson...
- Jimmy Potts Hollywood on Parade No. 9 (1933, Short) **** Below (1933) as Ptomaine, Ship's Cook Broadway to Hollywood (1933) as Himself, Hollywood Character...