dextrose

From dextro- +‎ -ose (“right-handed sugar”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/

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dextrose (countable and uncountable, plural dextroses)

1. The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
   • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎^[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

     The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

*Levose is not the antonym denoting the L-glucose form, owing to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research. *Levose is a misspelling of levulose (also misspelled as *levolose), denoting D-fructose, owing to those origins.

• D-glucose / D-Glucose
• dextroglucose

• L-glucose / L-Glucose (levorotatory form of glucose)

• glucose
• aldohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

• dextrin

• dextrin
• levulose (left sugar)

• detoxers

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dextrose m (uncountable)

1. dextrose (sugar)

• “dextrose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.