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Definition of Ptomaine
1. Noun. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
Generic synonyms: Amine, Aminoalkane
Specialized synonyms: Putrescine, Cadaverine
2. Noun. A term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines.
Definition of Ptomaine
1. n. 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.
Definition of Ptomaine
1. Noun. (chemistry) Any of various (amines) formed by putrefactive bacteria. ¹
2. Noun. (dated) food poisoning ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ptomaine
1. a compound produced by the decomposition of protein [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptomaine
Literary usage of Ptomaine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1893)
"In the first four cases, the poisonous properties of the ptomaine were destroyed;
but when the " Izal " was diluted to the extent of i in 1500 it failed to ..."
2. Poisons: their effects and detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1895)
"Definition of a ptomaine.—A ptomaine may be considered as a basic chemical ...
If this definition is accepted, a ptomaine is not necessarily formed in the ..."
3. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1887)
"L. Brieger, Untersuchungen über ptomaine. L. Brieger, Ueber ptomaine. Berlin 1885.
„ „ , Weitere Untersuchungen über ptomaine. Berlin 1885. ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"... ptomaine poisoning ptomaine poisoning in dogs. WA Dyer. Country Life 31:160
Ap '17 Public archives commission Fifteenth report of the Public archives ..."
5. Forty years in the medical profession, 1858-1898 by John Janvier Black (1900)
"Billing's definition of a ptomaine is that it is a strongly basic compound, the
result of putrefactive changes in animal tissues closely simulating ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This ptomaine may irritate the wound and prevent healing ; it may also be absorbed
into the blood and poison it, hence the term "ptomaine poisoning. ..."
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