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Meaning Of Ptomaine
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.