Aldose Definition

ăldōs, -dōz
noun
Any of a class of monosaccharide sugars containing an aldehyde group.
American Heritage
Any sugar containing the aldehyde group, CHO.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group.

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Other Word Forms of Aldose

Noun

Singular:
aldose
Plural:
aldoses

Origin of Aldose

  • ald(ehyde) –ose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aldose Sentence Examples

  • In its chemical properties glucose is a typical oxyaldehyde or aldose.

  • These reactions permit the transformation of an aldose into a ketose; the reverse change can only be brought about by reducing the ketose to an alcohol, and oxidizing this compound to an aldehyde.

  • The next important aldose is mannose.

  • Fischer has proposed formulae for the important disaccharoses, and in conjunction with Armstrong devised a method for determining how the molecule was built up, by forming the osone of the sugar and hydrolysing, whereupon the hexosone obtained indicates the aldose part of the molecule.

  • The new compound showed weak activity against aldose reductase.

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