ptomaine poisoning
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ptomaine poisoning
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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The image had its roots in a physical purging that Sylvia experienced as a result of ptomaine poisoning that she had contracted on 16 June, during a lunch at an advertising agency.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013
Most food poisoning, popularly known as ptomaine poisoning, comes from eating custards, ice cream or sausages which contain staphylococcus germs, usually occurs in the summer, if these foods are not kept on ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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