Definition of "neurine" []

• A ptomaine, related to choline, formed during putrefaction of biological tissues (noun)

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• "New unpublished researches into this problem have shown that it closely resembles neurine, [1] a body which I hope will speedily lead us to the complete synthesis of atropine."
• "They are probably allied to neurine, an alkaloid obtained from the brain and also from the bile."
• "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 ...."