dextrose

noun Biochemistry.

1. dextroglucose, commercially obtainable from starch by acid hydrolysis.

noun

1. a white soluble sweet-tasting crystalline solid that is the dextrorotatory isomer of glucose, occurring widely in fruit, honey, and in the blood and tissue of animals. Formula: C 6 H 12 O 6Also called: grape sugar, dextroglucose

n.

1867, shortened from dextro-glucose, from dextro- “right” + -ose (2), chemical suffix indicating a sugar. So called because this form of glucose polarizes light to the right in spectroscopy.

n.

1. The dextrorotatory form of glucose found naturally in animal and plant tissue and derived synthetically from starch.

1. A sugar that is the most common form of glucose. It is found in plant and animal tissues and also derived from starch. Dextrose is the dextrorotatory form of glucose.