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Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc. Lactic acid (Physiol. Chem.), a sirupy, colorless fluid, soluble in water, with an intensely sour taste and strong acid reaction. There are at least three isomeric modifications all having the formula C3H6O3. Sarcolact…

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Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

Of or pertaining to a parallax.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic. [Obs.]

relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

Stalactic.

btained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

roup, and thus having the qualities of an alcohol in addition to its acid properties; as, lactic and tartaric acids are hydroxy acids.

Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.

An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.

A salt of lactic acid.

ine substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

ving a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.

ertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.

An organic residue or radical derived from lactic acid.

r, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. (c) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.