Ptomaine

//ˈtəʊmeɪn//

Synonyms for "ptomaine" (4 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (2)

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Translations

31 translations across 24 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • трупна отрова noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 屍毒 /尸毒 noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • 屍鹼 /尸碱 noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Czech

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  • ptomain noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Danish

2 entries
  • liggift noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • ptomain noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Esperanto

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  • ptomaino noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

French

1 entries
  • ptomaïne noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

German

2 entries
  • Leichengift noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • Ptomain noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Greek

1 entries
  • πτωμαΐνη noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Hungarian

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  • ptomain noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Ido

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  • ptomaino noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • ptomaina noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Irish

1 entries
  • tóimín noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Italian

1 entries
  • ptomaina noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Latvian

1 entries
  • ptomaīns noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • ptomainas noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Polish

2 entries
  • jad trupi noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • ptomaina noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • ptomaína noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Romanian

1 entries
  • ptomaină noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Russian

2 entries
  • птомаи́н noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • тру́пный я́д noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • ptomàīn noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • птома̀ӣн noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Slovak

1 entries
  • ptomaín noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Spanish

2 entries
  • ptomaína noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)
  • tomaína noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • tomayna noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • птомаїн noun (any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria)

Sample sentences

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On 6 February 2001 the Yaremche Environmental Health Inspectorate (санітарно-епідеміологічна станція) concluded that the cemetery should not have been constructed on the VL [Vorokhtya Lisokombinat] plot in view of its proximity to residential buildings and the risk of contamination of the surrounding environment by ptomaine.

Source: wiktionary

"There have been cases of ptomaine poisoning from them, haven't there? Mr. Abbott put on a horrified expression.

Source: wiktionary

You remember Leonard Skinner. He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

Source: wiktionary

That is the place to find the kinds of shikses Who Will Do Anything! If only a person is willing to risk polio from the pool, gangrene from the footbath, ptomaine from the hot dogs, and elephantiasis from the soap and the towels, he might possibly get laid.

Source: wiktionary

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