cadaverine

See also: cadavérine

English

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cadaverine

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Alternative forms

• cadaverin

Etymology

From Latin cadāver (“corpse”) +‎ -ine, equivalent to cadaver +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈdævəɹɪn/

Noun

cadaverine (countable and uncountable, plural cadaverines)

1. A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH₂(CH₂)₅NH₂.

   Coordinate term: putrescine

   • 2022 December 5, Caitlin Doughty, “If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Fragrant gasses such as cadaverine and putrescine are treated with a biofilter before being released.

Synonyms

• 1,5-pentanediamine (See pentanediamine.), pentamethylenediamine.

Translations

foul-smelling diamine

Arabic: كادافيرين (kadafirin) Basque: kadaberina Bulgarian: кадаверин m (kadaverin) Catalan: cadaverina f Chinese: Mandarin: 屍胺 / 尸胺 (zh) (shī'àn) Czech: kadaverin (cs) m Dutch: cadaverine f Estonian: kadaveriin French: cadavérine (fr) f Galician: cadaverina f, caavrỹa (archaic) German: Cadaverin (de) n Hungarian: kadaverin Indonesian: cadaverina Irish: cadavairín m Italian: cadaverina (it) f Japanese: カダベリン (kadaberin) Latvian: kadaverīns m Lithuanian: kadaverinas m Polish: kadaweryna (pl) f Portuguese: cadaverina f Romanian: cadaverină f Russian: кадавери́н (ru) m (kadaverín) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кадаверин m Roman: kadaverin m Slovak: kadaverín m Spanish: cadaverina (es) f

Italian

Noun

cadaverine f

1. plural of cadaverina