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Dextroglucose Dextroglucose Dex`tro*glu"cose`, n. [Dextro- + glucose.]
(Chem.)
Same as Dextrose.
Glucose Glucose Glu"cose`, n. [Gr. ? sweet. Cf. Glycerin.]
1. 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.
2. (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with
glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
Glucoside Glucoside Glu"co*side, n. [See Glucose.] (Chem.)
One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances,
occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in
animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation
and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a
bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute
acids and alkalies, always break down into some
characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole,
or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the
name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers,
and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.
Glucosuria Glucosuria Glu`co*su"ri*a, n. [NL., fr. E. glucose + Gr. ?
urine.] (Med.)
A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine;
diabetes mellitus.
