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See Galactose.

of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

a from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

See Lactose.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar (lactose).

ed also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc. -- Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below). -- Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. -- Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush. -- Milk tooth (Anat.), one of…

accharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

lk sugar, a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose. -- Muscle sugar, a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also heart sugar. See Inosite. -- Pine sugar…