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Webster 1913 Edition
Neurine
Neu′rine
(? or ?)
, Noun.
[Gr.
νεῦρον
a nerve.] (Physiol. Chem.)
A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefaction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.
[Written also
neurin
.]