See Also: pyranose(medicine)
pyranose ring(medicine)

felon (oh) and pyranose (medicine)


felon (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Medieval Latin fello 'person who does evil']
someone who is guilty of a serious crime
::By law, convicted felons (=criminals who are sent to prison) may not own or use guns.

pyranose (medicine)


pyranose
<chemical> Sugar structure in which the carbonyl carbon is condensed with a hydroxyl group (i.e. In a hemi acetal link), forming a ring of five carbons and one oxygen. most hexoses exist in this form, although in sucrose, fructose is found with the smaller (four carbon) furanose ring.