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A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; - so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; - so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

Tetanotoxin.

Alkaloid of tetanic bacillus.

A poisonous ptomain, C14H20N2O4 , from cultures of tetanus bacillus.

A poisonous ptomain, C13H30N2O4, found in cultivations made to isolate the poison of tetanus and in limbs which have been amputated for tetanus.