Definition of Aldose

1. Noun. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.

Specialized synonyms: Aldohexose
Generic synonyms: Monosaccharide, Monosaccharose, Simple Sugar

Definition of Aldose

1. Noun. (context: organic chemistry carbohydrates) Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aldose

1. a type of sugar [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aldose

1. Any monosaccharide sugar that contains an aldehyde group (-CHO). (06 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aldose

aldolizations
aldols
aldonate
aldonate lactonohydrolase
aldonates
aldonic
aldonic acid
aldonic acids
aldopentonic acid
aldopentose
aldopentoses
aldophosphamide
aldopyranose
aldopyranoses
aldoril
aldose (current term)
aldose-ketose isomerases
aldose 1-epimerase
aldose mutarotase
aldose reductase
aldose reductase inhibitor
aldoses
aldoside
aldosterone
aldosterone antagonist
aldosterone antagonists
aldosterones
aldosteronism
aldosteronisms
aldosteronogenesis

Literary usage of Aldose

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

1. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"Now by the reduction of this carbon richer acid the carboxyl group is reduced to the aldehyde group and the result is an aldose sugar containing one more ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"This sugar occurs in honey and in many fruits. (7-) GALACTOSE, or d-galactose, is the aldose of dulcitol. (<J) MANNOSE is the aldose of mannitol. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1890)
"Pentoses: Arabinose (aldose). Xylose. ... Rhamnose (aldose). Hexoses : dli. Glucose j , ,, dli. ... Galactose (aldose of ..."

4. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"We may now return to the problem of the way in which we shall represent on a plane surface the fact that several aldose sugars of the general formula ..."

5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"The reaction affords a means of converting aldoses into ketoses: aldose ... yielding the corresponding lactone, which on reduction gives the aldose : Ketose ..."

6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"It is not improbable that this small quantity results from a partial transformation of aldose to ketose under I he influence of the strong acid employed. ..."

7. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"Mannose and levulose are respectively the aldose and ketose of mannite, galactose is the aldose of ..."

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