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Definition of Glucosamine
1. Noun. An amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides.
Definition of Glucosamine
1. Noun. (biochemistry) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of polysaccharides such as chitin; it is marketed as a dietary supplement supposedly to reduce the symptoms of arthritis ¹
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Definition of Glucosamine
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Glucosamine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glucosamine
Literary usage of Glucosamine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1916)
"That the amino group is united to the carbon atom neighboring the aldehyde is
made highly probably by the decomposition described by Neuberg, of glucosamine ..."
2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"glucosamine chloride has a sweet taste with a bitter after-flavor. Its solutions
are strongly dextrorotatory, showing mutarotation; [a]D after solution = + ..."
3. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"glucosamine chloride has a sweet taste with a bitter after-flavor. Its solutions
are strongly dextrorotatory, showing mutarotation; [a]D after solution = + ..."
4. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"glucosamine chloride has a sweet taste with a bitter after-flavor. Its solutions
are strongly dextrorotatory, showing mutarotation; [a]D after solution = + ..."
5. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1919)
"The glucosamine hydrochloride so formed is a colourless crystalline compound.
Lobster shell consists of carbonate of lime and a substance termed chitin, ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"The most important ammo-sugar is the already mentioned glucosamine. ...
glucosamine is, as E. FISCHER and LEUCHS 2 have shown, a derivative of glucose or of ..."
7. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"These conjugated proteins contain glucosamine or a polysaccharide composed of
... The dark brown crystals of glucosamine hydrochloride are filtered off, ..."
8. Studies in Puncture-fluids: A Contribution to Clinical Pathology by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1908)
"... and symbiotic substances, and methods of analysis—The diazo-reaction —The
ce-naphthol reaction—Ehrlich-s glucosamine reaction—Trypto- phane—Pigment—The ..."
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