mydaleine

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μυδαλέος (mudaléos, “mouldy”) + -ine.

Noun

mydaleine (uncountable)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• diamylene