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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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Medical Dictionary

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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glucose   (gl'kōs')  Pronunciation Key 
A monosaccharide sugar found in plant and animal tissues. Glucose is a product of photosynthesis, mostly incorporated into the disaccharide sugar sucrose rather than circulating free in the plant. Glucose is essential for energy production in animal cells. It is transported by blood and lymph to all the cells of the body, where it is metabolized to form carbon dioxide and water along with ATP, the main source of chemical energy for cellular processes. Glucose molecules can also be linked into chains to form the polysaccharides cellulose, glycogen, and starch. Chemical formula: C6H12O6. See more at cellular respiration, Krebs cycle, photosynthesis.
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