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A primary source of energy for living organisms. It is naturally occurring and is found in fruits and other parts of plants in its free state. It is used therapeutically in fluid and nutrient replacement.

A white crystalline variety of sugar found in sweet fruits, as the grape, cherry, etc.

Dextroglucose, starch-sugar; grape-sugar, C6H12O6; a dextrorotatory monosaccharid (hexose) found, usually with levulose, in many sweet fruits; it is the form of sugar chiefly excreted in diabetes mellitus.

Grape sugar, so called from its dextro-gyrate property.

Ordinary glucose.

A sugar of the glucose group, C6H12O6, used in pathology in bouillon and other culture media for differentiating the intestinal bacteria. See glucose. [Lat.]