tetanin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tetanin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth by a microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tetanin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)