Definition of Glycolic

1. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

Definition of Glycolic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to glycolic acid or its derivatives ¹

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Definition of Glycolic

1. glycol [adj] - See also: glycol

Medical Definition of Glycolic

1. Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid. Glycolic acid, an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, whence its name. It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance, HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids. Synonym: hydroxyacetic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycolic

glycoglycerolipids
glycoglycinuria
glycohydrolase
glycohydrolases
glycohydrolysis
glycohydrolytic
glycoinositolphospholipid
glycoinositolphospholipids
glycol
glycol ethers
glycol nucleic acid
glycolaldehyde
glycolaldehydetransferase
glycolate
glycoleucine
glycolic (current term)
glycolic acid
glycolic acid dehydrogenase
glycolic aciduria
glycolide
glycolipid
glycolipid lipidosis
glycolipids
glycollate
glycollates
glycollic acid
glycols
glycoluric
glycoluril
glycolurils

Literary usage of Glycolic

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1859)
""his reaction affords the means of separating glyoxylic from glycolic acid, ... The suggestion of R. Hofmann ,*"» 539) that glycolic acid is formed, ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"Finally, as an alcohol, glycolic acid forms ethereal salts, ... This is glycolic acid in which the hydrogen of the hydroxyl is replaced by acetyl, ..."

3. A Text Book of Organic Chemistry by William Albert Noyes (1903)
"Esters and Ethers of glycolic Acid. — glycolic acid forms esters and ethers of the five types ... Ethyl ether of glycolic ester (Ethoxy acetic ester) 5. ..."

4. A Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory (1856)
"glycolic Acid, C* H» Os, H 0 = C* H4 Oo. This acid is formed in the manner just ... iI It has been stated that glycolic acid is the lowest member of a ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"On the Chemical Constitution of glycolic Alcohol and its ... Ph.D. The chemical constitution of glycolic alcohol and its ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"... described as the glycolic series, which has been the subject of numerous researches, the most recent and comprehensive of which is that of Frankland and ..."

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