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Ptomaine vs Mydaleine - What's the difference?

ptomaine | mydaleine |

As nouns the difference between ptomaine and mydaleine

is that ptomaine is ptomaine while mydaleine is (chemistry) a ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.

ptomaine

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any of various (l) formed by putrefactive bacteria.
  • (dated) food poisoning
  • * 1989 , Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye :
    • Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted at ptomaine .

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    mydaleine

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    Noun

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  • (chemistry) A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.
  • * 1892 , Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, An Introduction to Modern Therapeutics
    • Two other alkaloids — mydaleine , and another not yet named — which Brieger isolated from putrefying livers and spleens, have a still more powerful purgative action, producing almost continuous and fatal diarrhoea.