WordNet
n. a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines [syn: ptomaine]
Usage examples of "ptomaine poisoning".
But for the episode of the chocolates, I might have believed these deaths to be the result of severe ptomaine poisoning-but ptomaine poisoning of an unusually virulent kind.
This mysterious outbreak of ptomaine poisoning had occurred at Thurnly Grange.
But ptomaine poisoning was quick to pass, and the President had been ill for five days, and the balance of his tour was cancelled.
Perhaps we wouldn't die of ptomaine poisoning, though I had it in mind to invite Gerhard Mueller to try it first.
He had found his Complete and Concise Home Doctor (two massive volumes, cross-indexed, fifteen hundred pages, including everything from ptomaine poisoning to beauty tips on the care and shaping of the eyebrow) in the Port of London, and had even learned English in order to understand it.
Passing away as peacefully as ptomaine poisoning allowed, he had left Maud and her mother to manage alone.
The temperature is always below zero, there is usually a raging blizzard to keep cabs off the street, and just as the victim remembers that he has left his wallet in his overcoat on the press bus, his stomach erupts with a sudden attack of ptomaine poisoning.
Who cares if you're liable to get ptomaine poisoning in Antone's Restaurant.