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Ptomaine   /tˈoʊmeɪn/   Listen
Ptomaine

noun
1.
Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.  Synonym: ptomain.
2.
A term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines.  Synonym: ptomaine poisoning.






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"Ptomaine" Quotes from Famous Books



... moisture is impregnated with plant food, and the tree will get all it wants. You can't speak in the same breath of the tree growing in the river bottoms whose entire root pasture is entirely different. The root pasture may become contaminated by various things which may cause, so to speak, ptomaine poison. Therefore I say that every locality, every soil, every climatic condition, every variety of tree must be taken as individual. What would be good for an apple orchard in Virginia might be fatal to an apple orchard immediately south of Lake Brie in Ohio. The use of commercial fertilizer ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting - Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 • Various

... affected part. If we get unusual and irritating bacteria in some spoiled food, we are likely to have an acute inflammation until the offending bacteria are expelled. But an inflammation of this kind never lasts. People who have had ptomaine poisoning sometimes assert that they are afterwards susceptible to poisoning by the kind of food which first made them ill. Such a susceptibility is not so much a hold-over effect from the poison as a hold-over fear ...
— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

... Yes; I remember now, hearing from Mrs. Stanley just before she died herself, poor soul—ptomaine poisoning and a dirty cook, some people seem pursued by cooks, figuratively speaking, of course,—that her brother had lost all his money and died, and that Antony had gone abroad. We are told not to judge, and I don't, but it did seem to me that Mrs. Stanley ...
— Antony Gray,—Gardener • Leslie Moore



Words linked to "Ptomaine" :   putrescine, ptomain, ptomaine poisoning, aminoalkane, amine, cadaverine, gastrointestinal disorder, food poisoning



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