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Meaning of mydaleine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines.

uncountable

Examples

“Two other alkaloids — mydaleine, and another not yet named — which Brieger isolated from putrefying livers and spleens, have a still more powerful purgative action, producing almost continuous and fatal diarrhoea.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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