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HEXOSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hexose mean?
• HEXOSE (noun)
The noun HEXOSE has 1 sense:
1. a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule
Familiarity information: HEXOSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hexose" is a kind of...):
monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar (a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hexose"):
aldohexose (a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group)
ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)
Context examples
Galactose is a hexose sugar found in the disaccharide lactose.
(Leloir Pathway of Galactose Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A hexose which is an epimer at C-2 of glucose.
(Mannose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
A hexose with a keto group, also called a keto-hexose.
(Fructose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Gentamicin C2 has a methyl group at the 6' position of the 2-amino-hexose ring, along with a free amine.
(Gentamicin C2, NCI Thesaurus)
Gentamicin C1a lacks methyl groups on the 2-amino-hexose ring and has a free amine at the 6' position.
(Gentamicin C1a, NCI Thesaurus)
A hexose which is almost identical to glucose except that orientation of -H and -OH on carbon 4 are exchanged, making it an epimer at C-4 of glucose (in Fisher projection).
(Galactose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Gentamicin C1 has a methyl group in the 6' position of the 2-amino-hexose ring and is N methylated at the same position.
(Gentamicin C1, NCI Thesaurus)
A hexose whose structure can be derived from galactose replacing the -OH group on carbon 6 with a hydrogen.
(Fucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
A hexose with an aldehyde group; in which each of the 5 remaining carbons other than the aldehyde group has one hydroxyl group in the R,S,R, and R configuration counting from the first hydroxyl containing carbon next to the aldehyde in the straight chain (Fisher) projection; otherwise all carbons have exclusively hydrogens.
(Glucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
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