Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The substance of which nervetissue is composed, consisting chiefly of fat and albumin containing phosphorus.
- noun An extract made from nerve-tissue, employed therapeutically.
- noun A ptomaine, and possibly also a leucomaine, having the formula (CH3)3.C2H3.NOH. It has decided toxic properties.
- noun A basic substance having the formula (CH3)3.C2H4.OH.NOH: same as
choline .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefaction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
ptomaine , related tocholine , formed during putrefaction of biological tissues
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Examples
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New unpublished researches into this problem have shown that it closely resembles neurine, [1] a body which I hope will speedily lead us to the complete synthesis of atropine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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They are probably allied to neurine, an alkaloid obtained from the brain and also from the bile.
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The change may have progressed insidiously and stealthily, having slowly and almost imperceptibly induced important molecular modifications in the delicate vesicular neurine of the brain, ultimately resulting in some aberration of the ideas, alteration of the affections, or perversion of the propensities or instincts ....
Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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It presents to view in the third month three vesicles of soft neurine, the one which is to form the cerebellum being larger than that which is to become the cerebrum.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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It must not, however, be supposed that the neurine or nervous matter is really absent in these races.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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The change may have progressed insidiously and stealthily, having slowly and almost imperceptibly induced important molecular modifications in the delicate vesicular neurine of the brain, ultimately resulting in some aberration of the ideas, alteration of the affections, or perversion of the propensities or instincts ....
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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