Lexic.us

Definition of Galactose

1. Noun. A simple sugar found in lactose.

Definition of Galactose

1. n. A white, crystalline sugar, C₆H₁₂O₆, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

Definition of Galactose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) A monosaccharide found, along with lactose, in dairy products, and is synthesized by the body where it is found associated with glycolipids and glycoproteins. ¹

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Definition of Galactose

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Medical Definition of Galactose

1. Hexose identical to glucose except that orientation of H and OH on carbon 4 are exchanged. A component of cerebrosides and gangliosides, glycoproteins. Lactose, the disaccharide of milk, consists of galactose joined to glucose by a _(1-4) glycosidic link. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galactose

Literary usage of Galactose

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)
"This property renders it easy to detect 1-galactose in the presence of d-galactose, d-glucose, d-mannose, d-fructose and other fermentable sugars. Teste. ..."

2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"This is remarkable, as the crystals formed are not those of dextrose but of galactose. The mass is then rubbed up with alcohol of 80 per cent., ..."

3. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"This property renders it easy to detect 1-galactose in the presence of d-galactose, d-glucose, d-mannose, d-fructose and other fermentable sugars. Tests. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Even the very best commercial galactose contains minute quantities of dextrose ; to remove this it must be treated with a pure culture of some yeast, ..."

5. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"1— galactose forms with phenylhydrazine a difficultly soluble hydra- melting ... Inactive galactose, as previously noted, has found in a few cases among the ..."

6. Practical physiological chemistry: A Book Designed for Use in Courses in by Philip Bovier Hawk (1916)
"They may be recrystallized from hot 95 per cent alcohol and melt at IS3°C. CH2OH galactose, (CHOH)4 CHO galactose occurs with glucose as one of the products ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Milk sugar, when hydrolysed by means of acids or enzymes, yields dextrose and galactose in equal proportions. On a commercial scale, sulphuric acid is used ..."

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