mydaleine

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noun

A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.

OriginAncient Greek μυδαλέος →
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Meanings

nounmydaleine (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.

    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

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekμυδαλέος“mouldy”
  2. Englishmydaleine

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

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Anagrams

diamylene
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