| 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) |
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| 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) |
| sugar of lead | Has been used as an astringent in diarrhoea, and in aqueous solution as a wet dressing in certain dermatoses. Synonym: sugar of lead. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sugar-phosphatase | <enzyme> Acts on a wide range of hexosephosphates, pentosephosphates and oligosaccharidesphosphates Registry number: EC 3.1.3.23 Synonym: sugar phosphate phosphohydrolase, hexose-6-phosphate phosphohydrolase (26 Jun 1999) |
| sugar tumour | A benign clear cell tumour of the lung containing abundant glycogen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deoxy sugar | A sugar containing fewer oxygen atoms than carbon atoms and in which, consequently, one or more carbons in the molecule lack an attached hydroxyl group. Synonym: desoxy sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| desoxy sugar | A sugar containing fewer oxygen atoms than carbon atoms and in which, consequently, one or more carbons in the molecule lack an attached hydroxyl group. Synonym: desoxy sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |