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Sugar (medicine)


sugar
<biochemistry, chemistry> Common name for any sweet, crystalline, simple carbohydrate which is an aldehyde or ketone derivative of a polyhydric alcohol. Sugars are mainly disaccharides like sucrose and monosaccharides like fructose, all are soluble indilute alcohol or water and are white in their pure form.


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