ALDEHYDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aldehyde mean? 

• ALDEHYDE (noun)
  The noun ALDEHYDE has 1 sense:

1. any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids

  Familiarity information: ALDEHYDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALDEHYDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("aldehyde" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aldehyde"):

ethanal trimer; paraldehyde (a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent)

acetaldehyde; ethanal (a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs)

formaldehyde; methanal (a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol)

furfural; furfuraldehyde (a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent)

glyceraldehyde; glyceric aldehyde (a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars)

propanal; propionaldehyde (a colorless liquid aldehyde)

acrolein; propenal (a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene)

 Context examples 

An unsaturated aldehyde with commercial applications, including the manufacture of sorbic acid, that is also found in tobacco smoke, gasoline and diesel engine exhausts, and smoke from wood burning.

(Crotonaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

A complex mixture of combustion products of diesel fuel including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile hydrocarbons, aldehydes, alkenes, alkanes and nitroarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other derivates.

(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)

This may reduce the metallic taste and taste disturbances induced by certain metal-containing chemotherapeutics; metal-induced lipid oxidation, and the subsequent production of aldehydes and ketones attribute to the metallic smell.

(Bovine Lactoferrin Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent is metabolized by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) into the active carboxylic acid metabolite benzoic acid dimethane sulfonate (BA), which further contributes to its alkylating activity.

(Benzaldehyde Dimethane Sulfonate, NCI Thesaurus)

A specific population of autologous, pluripotent bone marrow derived cells that express high levels of the cytosolic enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) with potential protective and neuro-cognition improving activity.

(Autologous Pluripotent ALDHbr Stem Cells ALD-451, NCI Thesaurus)

A color liquid aldehyde with an almond odor.

(Benzaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble oily liquid, C5H8O2, containing two aldehyde groups, used as a disinfectant and as a fixative for biological tissues.

(Glutaral, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally-active polyphenolic aldehyde with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Gossypol, NCI Thesaurus)

The reaction is based on the oxidation of glycol group to aldehydes by periodate.

(Periodic Acid Schiff Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, because palifosfamide does not require activation by aldehyde dehydrogenase, it may overcome the tumor resistance seen with ifosfamide.

(Palifosfamide, NCI Thesaurus)