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Words related to glucose

glu·cose
G g

  • blood sugar

    the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l

  • dextroglucose

    dextrose

  • glucosan

    any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.

  • glucose tolerance test

    a diagnostic procedure in which a measured amount of glucose is ingested and blood samples are taken periodically as a means of detecting diabetes mellitus.

  • glucosin

    any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.

  • levoglucose

    a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
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