cadaverine

See also: cadavérine

English

Alternative forms

• cadaverin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈdævəɹɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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^[1], →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
• Finnish: kadaveriini
• 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

  Latin: kadaverin m

• Slovak: kadaverín m
• Spanish: cadaverina (es) f

Italian

Noun

cadaverine f

1. plural of cadaverina