Definition of Cellose

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cellose

1. Reducing disaccharide composed of two D glucose moieties beta 1, 4 linked. The disaccharide subunit of cellulose, though not found as a free compound in vivo. (26 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cellose

cellobioside
cellodextrin phosphorylase
cellohexose
celloidin
celloidins
cellolike
cellomics
cellon
cellona
cellopentaose
cellophane
cellophane noodle
cellophane noodles
cellophanes
cellos
cellose (current term)
celloses
cellotaph
cellotaphs
cellotetraose
cellotriose
cellphone
cellphone lot
cellphone lots
cellphones
cells
cellubrevin
cellula
cellulae anteriores
cellulae coli

Literary usage of Cellose

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

1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"After 2 hours' standing the crude cellose, in the form of a granular powder, ... The solution is then set aside in the cold when the cellose will separate ..."

2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"After 2 hours' standing the crude cellose, in the form of a granular powder, ... The solution is then set aside in the cold when the cellose will separate ..."

3. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1919)
"cellose is not attacked by the enzymes of yeast (maltase). ... There is, however, considerable similarity in the behaviour of lactose and cellose towards ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"1915, 37, 1276) consider that cellose is composed of two glucose residues united similarly to the glucose and galactose residues in lactose. ..."

5. General Chemistry of the Enzymes by Hans von Euler, Thomas Henry Pope (1912)
"cellose or Cellobiose (E. Fischer and G. Zempl 4 n, Lieb. ... An enzyme extracted from apricot seeds hydrolyses only cellose and not trehalose. ..."

6. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"... named cellose, obtained by saponification of the ... Inversion converts cellose into dextrose. ..."

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