Ptomaine vs Mydaleine - What's the difference?
ptomaine | mydaleine |
(chemistry) Any of various (l) formed by putrefactive bacteria.
(dated) food poisoning
* 1989 , Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye :
(chemistry) A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.
* 1892 , Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, An Introduction to Modern Therapeutics
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)- 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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(-)- 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.