HEXOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hexose mean? 

• HEXOSE (noun)
  The noun HEXOSE has 1 sense:

1. a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule

  Familiarity information: HEXOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEXOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hexose" is a kind of...):

monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar (a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hexose"):

aldohexose (a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group)

ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)

 Context examples 

Galactose is a hexose sugar found in the disaccharide lactose.

(Leloir Pathway of Galactose Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A hexose which is an epimer at C-2 of glucose.

(Mannose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A hexose with a keto group, also called a keto-hexose.

(Fructose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Gentamicin C2 has a methyl group at the 6' position of the 2-amino-hexose ring, along with a free amine.

(Gentamicin C2, NCI Thesaurus)

Gentamicin C1a lacks methyl groups on the 2-amino-hexose ring and has a free amine at the 6' position.

(Gentamicin C1a, NCI Thesaurus)

A hexose which is almost identical to glucose except that orientation of -H and -OH on carbon 4 are exchanged, making it an epimer at C-4 of glucose (in Fisher projection).

(Galactose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Gentamicin C1 has a methyl group in the 6' position of the 2-amino-hexose ring and is N methylated at the same position.

(Gentamicin C1, NCI Thesaurus)

A hexose whose structure can be derived from galactose replacing the -OH group on carbon 6 with a hydrogen.

(Fucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A hexose with an aldehyde group; in which each of the 5 remaining carbons other than the aldehyde group has one hydroxyl group in the R,S,R, and R configuration counting from the first hydroxyl containing carbon next to the aldehyde in the straight chain (Fisher) projection; otherwise all carbons have exclusively hydrogens.

(Glucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)