Leucomaine - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leucomaineLeucomaine
An animal base or alkaloid appearing in the tissue during life hence a vital alkaloid as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison...
Mytilotoxine
A poisonous base leucomaine found in the common mussel It either causes paralysis of the muscles or gives rise to convulsions including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood...
Ptomaine
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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