Definition of Ptomainic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptomainic

ptilonorhynchid
ptilonorhynchids
ptilopaedic
ptiloses
ptilosis
ptisan
ptisane
ptisans
ptochologist
ptochologists
ptochology
ptomain
ptomaine
ptomaine poisoning
ptomaines
ptomainic (current term)
ptomains
ptooey
ptooie
ptoses
ptosis
ptosyl
ptotic
ptr
pts
ptui
ptyalagogue
ptyalagogues
ptyalin
ptyaline

Literary usage of Ptomainic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"... of ptomainic poisoning on record have resulted from partaking of food in which the putrefactive change was so slight as not to attract attention in any ..."

2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Some of the most violent attacks of ptomainic poisoning on record have resulted from partaking of food in which the putrefactive change was so slight as not ..."

3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1891)
"for by the chemical products of the pus-microbes themselves. In this connection it has been shown that the ptomainic products of pus ..."

4. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"... ptomainic pigment. Similar bodies of a basic nature may be found in the intestinal contents as the products of bacterial decomposition. ..."

5. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"... which produces the color of blue or blue- green pus is a ptomainic pigmeat. Similar bodies of a basic nature may be found in the intestinal contents as ..."

6. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"... the symptoms of ptomainic poisoning rarely become fully developed in less than 6 to 8 hours, and in some cases are much longer delayed. ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1892)
"... and ptomainic. The latter are convulsing and paralysing, whilst the former exert a more persistent influence of the vabo-motive phenomena. ..."

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