Definition of Mannose

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) A monosaccharide aldohexose found in manna and other legumes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mannose

1. a type of sugar [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mannose

1. A hexose or fermentable monosaccharide and isomer of glucose from manna, the ash fraxinus ornus and related plants. Chemical name: Mannose (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mannose

mannonates
mannopeptimycin
mannopeptimycins
mannopine cyclase
mannopine permease
mannopine synthase
mannoproteins
mannopyranose
mannopyranoses
mannopyranoside
mannopyranosides
mannopyranosyl
mannosamine
mannosan
mannosans
mannose (current term)
mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase
mannose-6-phosphate
mannose-6-phosphate isomerase
mannose-6-phosphate receptors
mannose-6-phosphate reductase
mannosephosphate isomerase
mannosephosphates
mannoses
mannosidase
mannosidases
mannoside
mannosidestreptomycin hydrolase
mannosidoses
mannosidosis

Literary usage of Mannose

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)
"1-mannose has been obtained only in form of a colorless unfermentable levorotatory sirup. ... 1-mannose forms with phenylhydrazine an insoluble hydrazone, ..."

2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"1-mannose has been obtained only in form of a colorless ... 1-mannose forms with phenylhydrazine an insoluble hydrazone, which resembles ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"The same substance has also been prepared from the bulb of Lilium auratum, and mannose-hydrazone made from it after hydrolysis. ..."

4. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1913)
"1oo cc „ „ -o5 x IPO „ 11-6 = 4-31 Per ccnt- Estimation of Galactose and mannose. The procedure is exactly the same as for glucose:— ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1890)
"The action of beer yeast upon i-mannose is quite analogous, ... part ferments and 1-mannose remains behind.3 In both cases the yeast uses up that part of ..."

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