Vocabulary : Ptisan to Ptyxis
Ptisan : A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink. ;; An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.Ptolemaic : Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.
Ptolemaist : One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
Ptomaine : One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.
Ptosis : Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.
