- Cadaveric alkaloid
- Cadaveric Ca*dav"er*ic, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
--Dunglison.
[1913 Webster]
{Cadaveric alkaloid}, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See {Ptomaine}. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.