Ptomaine
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids a cadaveric poison The ptomaines as a class have their origin in dead matter by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines
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