ALL meanings of d-glucose
d-glu·cose
D d - noun d-glucose 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. 1
- noun d-glucose Also called starch syrup. a syrup containing dextrose, maltose, and dextrine, obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch. 1
- noun d-glucose (biochemistry) dextrorotatory glucose. 0