Lactic Acid Definition

Lactic Acid Sentence Examples

• Lister for isolating a pure culture of lactic acid bacterium.

• The Bacterium acidi lacti described by Pasteur decomposes milk sugar into lactic acid.

• Glucose also undergoes fermentation into lactic acid in the presence of the lactic acid bacillus, and into butyric acid if the action of the preceding ferment be continued, or by other bacilli.

• Massart and Bordet, Leber, Metchnikoff and others have studied the phenomenon in leucocytes, with the result that while there is evidence of their being positively chemiotactic to the toxins of many pathogenic microbes, it is also apparent that they are negatively influenced by such substances as lactic acid.

• It is difficultly fermented by yeast, but readily by the lactic acid bacillus.