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Definition of Levorotary
1. Adjective. Rotating to the left.
Similar to: Anticlockwise, Contraclockwise, Counterclockwise
Definition of Levorotary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levorotary
Literary usage of Levorotary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"Other levorotary bodies that may mask the dextro-rotation pro- ... by the presence
of these levorotary reducing substances may occasionally be detected and ..."
2. The Pharmacology of Useful Drugs by Robert Anthony Hatcher, Martin Inventius Wilbert (1915)
"levorotary epinephrin is of uniform activity, so long as it has not undergone
decomposition, ... The market supply of artificial epinephrin is levorotary. ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"... acid ester of abase, tropin, and is isomeric with Hyoscyamin; hyoscyamin being
levorotary, whilst atropin is racemic. The esters of tropin are called ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"The results obtained by polarization are influenced by the levorotary power of
invert sugar. Therefore, in the presence of the latter, a different procedure ..."
5. Medical Research and Education by Richard Mills Pearce (1913)
"... ammonium tartrate, with the striking result that the living beings converted
the optically indifferent solution of salts into a levorotary solution. ..."
6. A Text-book of Chemistry and Chemical Uranalysis for Nurses by Harold Lindsay Amoss (1915)
"... the polarized light to the right, now the solution is levorotary ... the other
levorotary. Further chemical test show these substances to be dextrose ..."
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