mydaleine
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Noun
[edit]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.