"galactose" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡəˈlaktəʊz/ [US], /ɡəˈlaktəʊs/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-galactose.wav [Southern-England] Forms: galactoses [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γάλακτος (gálaktos, “milk”) + -ose (“sugar”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|γάλακτος||milk}} Ancient Greek γάλακτος (gálaktos, “milk”), {{suffix|en||ose|gloss2=sugar}} + -ose (“sugar”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} galactose (countable and uncountable, plural galactoses)
  1. (biochemistry) A monosaccharide found, along with lactose, in dairy products, and is synthesized by the body where it is found associated with glycolipids and glycoproteins. Wikipedia link: galactose Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Carbohydrates Derived forms: anhydrogalactose, asialogalactose, digalactose, galactosemia, galactosephosphate, monogalactose, trigalactose Related terms: galactagogue, galactorrhea Translations (the monosaccharide): galactosa [masculine] (Catalan), 半奶糖 (pòaⁿ-leng-thn̂g, pòaⁿ-ni-thn̂g, pòaⁿ-lin-thn̂g) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 半乳糖 (bun² jyu⁵ tong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 半乳糖 (bànrǔtáng) (Chinese Mandarin), galaktóza [feminine] (Czech), galaktose (Danish), galaktozo (Esperanto), galaktoosi (Finnish), galactose [masculine] (French), galactosa [feminine] (Galician), વિદુગ્ધધુ (vidugdhadhu) (Gujarati), विदुग्धधु (vidugdhadhu) (Hindi), galattosio [masculine] (Italian), विदुग्धधू (vidugdhadhū) (Marathi), विदुग्धधु (vidugdhadhu) (Nepali), galaktose (Norwegian), گالاکتوز (gâlâktoz) (Persian), galaktoza [feminine] (Polish), galactose [feminine] (Portuguese), галакто́за (galaktóza) [feminine] (Russian), galaktóza [feminine] (Slovak), galaktoza [feminine] (Slovene), galactosa [feminine] (Spanish), galaktos (Swedish), galaktosa (Tagalog), กาแล็กโทส (Thai)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.