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Ptomaines
- noun - a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines
- any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria
Pugnacity
- noun - a natural disposition to be hostile
Pulpatoon
- - A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.
Pulsatile
- - Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.
Pulsating
- verb - expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
Pulsation
- noun - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
Pulsatory
- - Capable of pulsating; throbbing.
Pungapung
- noun - putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
Purgament
- - That which is excreted; excretion.