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What does ptomaine mean?

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Noun
  1. (chemistry) Any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria.
  2. (dated) food poisoning
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He died of ptomaine poisoning contracted from tainted Japanese crabmeat.
Being in town, I warily went along to the Colorado Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, a ballet I normally prefer only slightly to ptomaine poisoning.
The simplest ptomaine is, in which one H is replaced by methyl, methylamine, a gaseous ptomaine.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Doncaster had been suffering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating pigeon pie provided for their guests at an entertainment at the Mansion House.
A lot of historians said it was coronary thrombosis, but, for all I know, that's the most common way that ptomaine poisoning ends up killing you!
According to the old Eclectic doctors it proved to be universally successful in the treatment of every case of ptomaine poisoning.

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