Lactose Definition

lăktōs
noun
A white, crystalline disaccharide found in milk and prepared by evaporation of the whey, leaving the crystallized sugar: used in infant foods, medicine, etc.
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Origin of Lactose

  • From Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

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Lactose Sentence Examples

  • The fat (which when separated we know as butter) and the lactose constitute the carbonaceous portion of the milk regarded as food.

  • Persons with lactose intolerance should never use goat's milk.

  • For example, various sugars - lactose, glucose, saccharose, &c. - are added to test the fermentative action of the bacterium on these substances; litmus is added to show changes in reaction, specially standardized media being used for estimating such changes; peptone solution is commonly employed for testing whether or not the bacterium forms indol; sterilized milk is used as a culture medium to determine whether or not it is curdled by the growth.

  • Free from wheat dairy lactose sugar yeast gluten salt corn/maize soya starch.

  • With lactose as the main energy source there is a very high rate of synthesis from the lac operon.

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