Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A monosaccharide, C6H12O6, obtained from mannan or by the oxidation of mannitol.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name of three stereomeric compounds, C6H12O6. The dextro-derivative is found in groundnuts and is prepared by the oxidation of mannite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
monosaccharide aldohexose found inmanna and otherlegumes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The stuff. isn't an antibiotic, as the name suggests, but an endotoxin fraction-a complex organic sugar - called a mannose; it got its name from the fact that it's produced by fermentation, as antibiotics are.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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You can also consume D-mannose, which is a 100\% natural sugar solution that attracts the harmful bacterium towards itself and flushes it out of the urinary tract.
Best Syndication - 2009
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Ohio State University researchers have determined that Mycobacterium tuberculosis has learned through evolution to coat itself with a sugar called mannose, which makes the bacterium attractive to cells in the lungs that are looking to clean up and discard unwanted sugar in the body.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008
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Glucose converts to sorbitol, mannose to mannitol, and maltose to maltitol.
Sweeter Than Sugar? 2007
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Carbohydrate metabolism: positive selection was observed for genes involved in breaking down mannose in Yorubans, sucrose in East Asians, and lactose for Europeans.
Human Evolution Zoe Brain 2006
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Similarly, East Asians show genetic changes that affect the metabolism of the sugar sucrose, while the Yoruba people in sub-Saharan Africa show genetic changes that alter how they metabolize the sugar mannose.
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In chordates, collectins initiate the lectin cascade through members of the mannose-binding protein (MBP)—associated protease (MASP)/C1r/C1s family.
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Mannans are plant polysaccharides that are polymers of mannose.
Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006
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Carbohydrate metabolism: positive selection was observed for genes involved in breaking down mannose in Yorubans, sucrose in East Asians, and lactose for Europeans.
Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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For the proof of principle, Johnston tested for mannose-binding lectin 2 (MBL2).
Quick Read on Your Genetics Daith hAnluain 2004
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