See Also: cerebrose(medicine)

cattleya (iou) and cerebrose (medicine)


cattleya (iou)



cattleya noun. E19.
[mod. Latin, from William Cattley (d. 1832), English patron of botany: see -A1.]
An epiphytic neotropical orchid of the genus Cattleya, with handsome violet, pink, or yellow flowers.

cerebrose (medicine)


cerebrose -->
galactose
<biochemistry> Hexose identical to glucose except that orientation of H and OH on carbon 4 are exchanged.

A component of cerebrosides and gangliosides, glycoproteins. Lactose, the disaccharide of milk, consists of galactose joined to glucose by a _(1-4) glycosidic link.