Crossword clues for dextrose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glucose \Glu"cose`\, n. [Gr. ? sweet. Cf. Glycerin.]
A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
(Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. the naturally-occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule
WordNet
n. an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits [syn: dextroglucose, grape sugar]
Usage examples of "dextrose".
He was wondering if the hospital in Key Largo would sell him extra bags of dextrose water for the IV.
He had purchased a dozen clear bags of five-percent dextrose solution from a wholesale medical shop in Perrine.
Webber began an IV infusion of dextrose and water first, and then she added the drug to it, but the IV kept backing up, and her vein collapsed just after they started.
Before they'd injected even half the dextrose, he'd pulled away—and was halfway down the hall.
The zoologist continued, "Then there're traces of formaldehyde, phenol, fructose, dextrose, cellulose.
We've started intravenous dextrose to keep him fed and hydrated until we can get down to the bottom.
A few of the nuggets would explode between his molars, but then his jaw would snap shut and drive all of the unshattered nuggets straight up into his palate where their armor of razor-sharp dextrose crystals would inflict massive collateral damage, turning the rest of the meal into a sort of pain-hazed death march and rendering him Novocain mute for three days.
It may well be -- I have believed so ever since I was fourteen years old -- that the elements are all isomers, differentiated by geometrical structure, electrical charge, or otherwise in precisely the same way as ozone from oxygen, red from yellow phosphorous, dextrose from ~laevulose, and a paraffin from a benzene of identical empirical formula.