| CF | calcaneal fibular [ligament]; calcium leucovorin; calf blood flow; calibration factor; cancer-free; ... |
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| CL | capillary lumen; cardiolipin; cell line; centralis lateralis; chemiluminescence; chest and left arm ... |
| CR | calculation rate; calculus removed; calorie-restricted; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiac resuscitatio... |
| LTAS | lead tetra-acetate Schiff |
| MCL | maximum containment laboratory; medial collateral ligament; midclavicular line; midcostal line; mini... |
| SSS | Salt Sugar Solution |
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| SP | Sugar phosphates |
| TEL | Tetraethyl lead |
| milk sugar | A disaccharide present in mammalian milk, used in infant formulas, large doses can act as a laxative. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| wood sugar | D-xylose. See: xylose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| protein-N-pi-phosphohistidine - sugar phosphotransferase | <enzyme> Enzyme II of the system; leve is the the IIb subunit from bacillus subtilis Registry number: EC 2.7.1.69 Synonym: phph-phosphotransferase, phosphohistidinoprotein-hexose phosphotransferase, leve gene product, IIb(lev) (26 Jun 1999) |
| specific soluble sugar | A soluble type-specific polysaccharide produced during active growth of virulent pneumococci composing a large part of the capsule. Synonym: pneumococcal polysaccharide, soluble specific substance, specific soluble polysaccharide, specific soluble sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| starch sugar | See: d-glucose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar | <biochemistry, chemistry> Common name for any sweet, crystalline, simple carbohydrate which is an aldehyde or ketone derivative of a polyhydric alcohol. Sugars are mainly disaccharides like sucrose and monosaccharides like fructose, all are soluble indilute alcohol or water and are white in their pure form. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sugar acids | Acids, such as gluconic, glycuronic, and saccharic acid, produced by the oxidation of glucose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar alcohol | The polyalcohol resulting from the reduction of the carbonyl group in a monosaccharide to a hydroxyl group. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar alcohol dehydrogenases | <enzyme> Reversibly catalyses the oxidation of a hydroxyl group of sugar alcohols to form a keto sugar, aldehyde or lactone. Any acceptor except molecular oxygen is permitted. Registry number: EC 1.1. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sugar alcohols | Polyhydric alcohols having no more than one hydroxy group attached to each carbon atom. They are formed by the reduction of the carbonyl group of a sugar to a hydroxyl group. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sugar aldehyde | A sugar that contains an internal acetal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar cataract | Any cataract associated with intralenticular accumulation of pentose or hexose alcohols. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar ester | Ester of a sugar with an organic or inorganic acid; e.g., d-glucose-6-phosphate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar-icing liver | Hyaloserositis of the liver. Synonym: Curschmann's disease, icing liver, sugar-icing liver, zuckergussleber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar-non-specific nuclease | <enzyme> An exocytoplasmic sugar-non-specific nuclease that is able to degrade linear or covalently closed circular double-stranded DNA as well as single-stranded DNA or RNA; from cyanobacterium anabaena; mw 29 kD; amino acid sequence has been determined Registry number: EC 3.1.- Synonym: nuca gene product, anabaena (26 Jun 1999) |