| Nat | native; natural |
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| NCMC | natural cell-mediated cytotoxicity |
| ND | Doctor of Naturopathy; nasal deformity; natural death; Naval Dispensary; neonatal death; neoplastic ... |
| NK | Commission on [Anatomical] Nomenclature [Ger. Nomenklatur Kommission]; natural killer [cell]; neurok... |
| NKCA | natural killer cell activity |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
| invert sugar | Subjected to chemical inversion: inverted. (18 Nov 1997) |
| oil sugar | A class of preparations made by the trituration of a volatile oil (anise, fennel, lemon, etc.) with sugar; used as a diluent or corrigent of powerful or bad tasting drugs in powder form. Synonym: oil sugar. Origin: oleo-+ G. Saccharon, sugar (05 Mar 2000) |
| fruit sugar | D-fructose. See: fructose. (05 Mar 2000) |