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pu·tres·cine

n :  a crystalline slightly poisonous ptomaine C4H12N2 that is formed by decarboxylation of ornithine, occurs widely but in small amounts in living things, and is found esp. in putrid flesh .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  Pi·tres·sin 

 
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