Medical Definition of Glycal

1. An unsaturated sugar derivative in which the adjacent hydroxyl groups are removed, one of which is that upon the carbon-1 of the aldose (or carbon-2 of the ketose), yielding a CH==CH between these two positions. Synonym: glucal. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycal

glutton
gluttonies
gluttonise
gluttonize
gluttonous
gluttonously
gluttonousness
gluttons
gluttony
glut itis
Glx
Gly
glyburide
glyburide
glycaemia
glycal (current term)
glycan
glycan
glycanase
glycanohydrolases
glycans
glycate
glycation
glyceraldehdye 3 phosphate
glyceraldehyde
glyceraldehyde
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductase
glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase
glyceraldehydes
glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

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