Lexic.us

2. Noun. (nutrition) A major class of foods that includes sugars and starches. ¹

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Definition of Carbohydrates

1. carbohydrate [n] - See also: carbohydrate

Medical Definition of Carbohydrates

1. A class of aldehyde or ketone derivatives of polyhydric alcohols, particularly of the pentahydric and hexahydric alcohols. They are so named because the hydrogen and oxygen are usually in the proportion to form water, cn(h2o)n. The most important include the small sugars as well as the large starches, glycogens, celluloses, and gums. Carbohydrates with reference to nutrition and diet are dietary carbohydrates. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbohydrates

Literary usage of Carbohydrates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"THE carbohydrates. WE designate by this name bodies which are especially abundant in the plant kingdom. As the protein bodies form the chief portion of the ..."

2. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"THE carbohydrates. WE designate with this name bodies which are especially abundant in the plant kingdom. As the protein bodies form the chief portion of ..."

3. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"carbohydrates. The carbohydrates are found chiefly in vegetable tissues, ... Some carbohydrates are, however, found in or formed by the animal organism. ..."

4. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"CHAPTER II carbohydrates The name carbohydrates is given to a class of bodies which ... They are called carbohydrates because they contain the elements C, ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The relative fastness of the various colours is generally the same as on wool, and a special classification for silk seems unnecessary. The carbohydrates of ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"carbohydrates are formed synthetically in green plants, ... (c) Digestion and Absorption of carbohydrates in the Human Body The carbohydrates of the food ..."

7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF carbohydrates IN FOOD STUFFS, II. ... This method of estimating carbohydrates was employed there for the first time, ..."

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