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glu⋅cose

  [gloo-kohs]
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–noun Biochemistry.
1. a sugar, C6H12O6, having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or d-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 l-glucose) not naturally occurring.
2. Also called starch syrup. a syrup containing dextrose, maltose, and dextrine, obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch.
Origin:
1830–40; < F < Gk glyk(ýs) sweet + F -ose -ose 2

Related forms:
glu⋅cos⋅ic, adjective
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glu·cose   (glōō'kōs')   
n.  

  1. A monosaccharide sugar, C6H12O6, occurring widely in most plant and animal tissue. It is the principal circulating sugar in the blood and the major energy source of the body.

  2. A colorless to yellowish syrupy mixture of dextrose, maltose, and dextrins containing about 20 percent water, used in confectionery, alcoholic fermentation, tanning, and treating tobacco. Also called starch syrup.


[French, from Greek glukus, sweet.]
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glucose [(glooh-kohs)]

The most common form of sugar, found extensively in the bodies of living things; a molecule composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.

Note: Glucose is involved in the production of energy in both plants and animals.
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Word Origin & History

glucose 
1840, from Fr. glucose (1838), from Gk. gleukos "must, sweet wine," related to glyks "sweet."
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Main Entry: glu·cose
Pronunciation: 'glü-"kOs, -"kOz
Function: noun
: an optically active sugar C6H12O6 that hasan aldehydic carbonyl group; especially : the sweet colorless soluble dextrorotatory form that occurs widely in nature and is the usual form in which carbohydrate is assimilated byanimals
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glucose glu·cose (gl&oomacr;'kōs')
n.
A monosaccharide sugar the blood that serves as the major energy source of the body; it occurs in most plant and animal tissue. Also called blood sugar.

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