Catalan Meaning of glucose

glucosa

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Definitions and Meaning of glucose in English

Wordnet

glucose (n)

a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy

Webster

glucose (n.)

A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

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glucosa

a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energyA variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe gra

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glucosamine => Glucosamina, glucophage => glucofage, gluconic => glucònic, glucogenesis => Glucogènesi, glucogen => Glicogen,