Glucose

Definition:

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

Compare glucose with other words:

galactose vs. glucose

glucose vs. indiglucin

glucose vs. violaquercitrin

glucose vs. sorbin

glucose vs. glycosuria

glucose vs. glycogenesis

fructose vs. glucose

glucose vs. raffinose

amylose vs. glucose

dextrin vs. glucose

glucose vs. maltose

cellulose vs. glucose

glucose vs. lactose

glucose vs. mannose

glucose vs. sucrose

dextroglucose vs. glucose

glucose vs. metabolism

glucose vs. glucoside

glucose vs. trehalose

glucose vs. sugar

dextrose vs. glucose