LACTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lactic mean? 

• LACTIC (adjective)
  The adjective LACTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)

  Familiarity information: LACTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

lactic fermentation

Pertainym:

milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)

 Context examples 

A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped, lactic acid bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Carnobacteriaceae.

(Granulicatella, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called lactic acid dehydrogenase and LDH.

(Lactate dehydrogenase, NCI Dictionary)

They convert the sugars in the grass into lactic acid and its derivatives.

(Will We Soon Drive on ‘Grassoline’?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This species is catalase positive, oxidase negative, ferments citrate, does not ferment arabinose or melibiose, reduces tetrazolium and is a lactic acid bacteria.

(Enterococcus faecalis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-motile, ferments melibiose, does not ferment arabinose or citrate, does not reduce tetrazolium and is a lactic acid bacteria.

(Enterococcus durans, NCI Thesaurus)

Lactic acid is also made in muscles in the body and is used in many chemical processes in the body.

(Lactic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The determination of the amount of lactic acid present in a sample.

(Lactic Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The levorotatory isomer of lactic acid, the biologically active isoform in humans.

(Lactic Acid, L-, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of bacterium that ferment carbohydrates into lactic acid, in the phylum Firmicutes that includes the genera Lactobacillus and Pediococcus, among others.

(Lactobacillaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

Lactic acid or lactate is produced during fermentation from pyruvate by lactate dehydrogenase.

(Lactic Acid, DL-, NCI Thesaurus)