LACTIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lactic acid mean? 

• LACTIC ACID (noun)
  The noun LACTIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits

  Familiarity information: LACTIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACTIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("lactic acid" is a kind of...):

carboxylic acid (an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, catalase negative, produces acid from trehalose, nonsporeforming and produces lactic acid.

(Lactobacillus johnsonii, NCI Thesaurus)

A live form of a bacterium that makes lactic acid (a substance that is made from sugars found in milk and is also made in the body).

(Culturelle, NCI Dictionary)

A measurement of the lactic acid in a biological specimen.

(Lactic Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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

(Lactic Acid, DL-, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of bacterium that makes lactic acid (a substance that is made from sugars found in milk and is also made in the body).

(Lactobacillus, NCI Dictionary)

A taxonomic family of Gram positive, lactic acid bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes.

(Carnobacteriaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase negative, requires folic acid for growth in culture, ferments arabinose and melibiose, does not ferment citrate, does not reduce tetrazolium and is a lactic acid bacteria.

(Enterococcus faecium, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of lactic acid bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes.

(Aerococcaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, nonsporulating, catalase and oxidase negative and produces lactic acid from glucose fermentation.

(Abiotrophia defectiva, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Lactic Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)