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Mydaleine
My-da′le-ine
,Noun.
[Gr.
μυδᾶν
to be clammy (from decay).] (Physiol. Chem.)
A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation.
Brieger.
Definition 2024
mydaleine
mydaleine
English
Noun
mydaleine (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1892, Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, An Introduction to Modern Therapeutics