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The Collaborative International Dictionary
mannitol \man"ni*tol\, n. [Mannite + -ol.]
(Chem.) A white crystalline hexose ( HO.CH
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(CHOH)4.CH2.OH) of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash ( Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannite, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. It is used in pharmacy as excipient and diluent for solids and liquids. It is also used as a food additive for anti-caking properties, or as a sweetener, and, illegally, to "cut" (dilute) illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
Syn: D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal.
Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) a polyhydroxy alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, used as an artificial sweetener
WordNet
n. a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine [syn: Osmitrol]
Wikipedia
Mannitol, also known as mannite or manna sugar, is a white, crystalline solid that looks and tastes sweet like sucrose. Medically it is used to treat increased intracranial pressure. It also has several industrial uses. In plants its purpose is to alleviate osmotic stress.
Serious side effects may include worsening heart failure, electrolyte abnormalities, or low blood volume. It is unclear if it is safe in pregnancy. Mannitol is classified as a sugar alcohol; that is, it is derived from a sugar ( mannose) by reduction. Other sugar alcohols include xylitol and sorbitol. Mannitol and sorbitol are isomers, the only difference being the orientation of the hydroxyl group on carbon 2.
It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system. It was originally isolated from the flowering ash and called manna after its supposed resemblance to the Biblical food.
Usage examples of "mannitol".
We found a rolling tray and a power hitter in the kitchen and a bottle of mannitol in the medicine cabinet.
The intracranial pressures were holding steady, with the help of intravenous Mannitol and Lasix, as well as forced hyperventilation.
Two pharmaceutically brown bottles on top, procaine and mannitol, dental anesthetic and baby laxative.
In ER they had shrink-wrapped his brain down to three-quarters its size by running a half liter of concentrated mannitol through it.
Remember you’ll need glucose, lactose, dulcitol, sucrose, mannitol, maltose, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, and one tube for indole production.
He was fifty and a Colonel of Infantry in the Army of the United States and to pass a physical examination that he had to take the day before he came down to Venice for this shoot, he had taken enough mannitol hexanitrate to, well he did not quite know what to—to pass, he said to himself.