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
There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not likely that either Washington's or Massillon's victims had ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naturally a party where everyone must first be inoculated and then constantly bear in mind the possibility of ptomaine poisoning is not ideal, or apt to be largely attended.
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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