cerebrose

English

Etymology

Noun

cerebrose (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A sugar-like body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cerebrose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)