Definitions for glucose

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glucose glu·cose

Spelling: [gloo-kohs]

IPA: /ˈglu koʊs/

Glucose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in glucose (ceglosu).

Definitions for glucose

noun

1. a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
2. Also called starch syrup. a syrup containing dextrose, maltose, and dextrine, obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch.

Origin of glucose

1830-40; French Greek glyk(ýs) sweet + French -ose -ose²

Examples for glucose

This was directly established for glucose, lævulose, galactose, and arabinose .

Boiled in dilute acids it splits into murrayetin and glucose.

Why must the starchy foods be changed in the body into sugar, or glucose?

In Willpower, Baumeister and Tierney convincingly describe another addendum: willpower depends on glucose as an energy source.

A new book argues that willpower is tied directly to consumption of glucose—and we can teach ourselves new behavior.

I have a good notion to poison myself by eating some of your glucose sugar.

The cells in your body run on glucose from sugar and ketones from fat.

Dieting, as the glucose breakthrough reveals, provides an especially tricky test of willpower.

The researchers found that the fake stuff drives the kind of glucose intolerance that can lead to diabetes in human.

glucose is also found in considerable amount in sweet corn and onions.