Lexic.us

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Definition of Carbo

1. a carbohydrate [n -S] - See also: carbohydrate

Medical Definition of Carbo

1. Synonym: charcoal. Origin: L. Coal (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbo

Literary usage of Carbo

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

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"The Physiology of the carbo-hydrates.—In the Croonian Lectures for 1894 Dr. Pavy dealt a severe blow at the g'yco- genic function of the liver. ..."

2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"CEPPHUS carbo Pallas. SPECTACLED GUILLEMOT. Adult in breeding plumage.—"Bill long and stout, much more robust than in U. [ie C.] columba. ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"G. Substances obtained from Lignite. Herz's carbo- ... and carbo- humic acids. When powdered lignite (from the coal of the Hohenpeissenberg in Southern ..."

4. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"Cinna and carbo, Consuls. Message from Sylla to the Senate: their reply. ... carbo continues as sole Consul. § 5. Rejoinder of Sylla to the reply of the ..."

5. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"Cinna and carbo, Consuls. Message from Sylla to the Senate: their reply. ... carbo continues as sole Consul. § 5. Rejoinder of Sylla to the reply of the ..."

6. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"carbo ANIMALIS and carbo veg. do not follow each other ... carbo animalis is suited to old persons and to those who are greatly debilitated by disease, ..."

7. The Natural history of digestion by Alexander Lockhart Gillespie (1904)
"THE carbo-hydrates are bodies containing three elements, carbon, hydrogen, ... A carbo-hydrate molecule may be formed by varying numbers of carbon atoms, ..."

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