dextroglucose
English
editEtymology
editFrom dextro- + glucose (“right sugar”).
Noun
editdextroglucose (usually uncountable, plural dextroglucoses)
Usage notes
editLevoglucose is not the antonym L-glucose form: despite its name, it is in fact D-fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.
See also
edit- levoglucose (levulose, D-fructose form of fructose) (left sugar)