different between ptomaine vs cadaveric

English

Alternative forms

• ptomaïne

Etymology

From French ptomaïne, from Italian ptomaina, from Ancient Greek ????? (ptôma, “corpse”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??me?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?to?me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

ptomaine (countable and uncountable, plural ptomaines)

1. (chemistry) Any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria.
2. (dated) Food poisoning.
   • 1963 , Allan Sherman, ‘’Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A letter from Camp)

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

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 165,^[2]

     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.

   • 1989, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

     Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted at ptomaine.

Translations

References

• ptomaine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• antipoem

Italian

Noun

ptomaine f

1. plural of ptomaina

English

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kad??v???k/, /k??dav???k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??dav???k/

Adjective

cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)

1. Pertaining to a corpse.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 157:

     Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.

2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
   • 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society 2007, p. 21:

     He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]

Derived terms

• cadaveric alkaloid

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Adjective

cadaveric m or n (feminine singular cadaveric?, masculine plural cadaverici, feminine and neuter plural cadaverice)

1. cadaveric

Declension