cadaveric alkaloid 【医】 尸硷, 尸毒
Cadaveric \Ca*dav"er*ic\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
--Dunglison.
{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}.