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MALTOSE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches

Synonyms:

malt sugar; maltose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

disaccharide (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

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This species is indole negative, ferments cellobiose, glucose, mannose and maltose but not ribose and does not reduce nitrate.

(Clostridium oceanicum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is variably motile by peritrichous flagella, endosporeforming, catalase and lipase negative and nearly all strains do not ferment maltose.

(Clostridium sordellii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, produces a yellowish pigment, non-hemolytic, utilizes glucose and maltose, but not mannose or lactose, reduces nitrite but not nitrate, and some strains spontaneously agglutinate in saline.

(Neisseria subflava, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is non motile, catalase and oxidase positive, does not hydrolyze ortho nitrophenyl beta galactosidase, urease negative and acid is produced from glucose, maltose, mannose and fructose.

(Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, produces a yellowish pigment, reduces both nitrate and nitrite, synthesizes polysaccharides, and produces acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose, but not mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, indole negative, produces acid from fructose, glucose and maltose, does not reduce nitrate and is catalase negative.

(Megasphaera elsdenii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is aerotolerant, non-exotoxin producing, ferments glucose, lactose, maltose and sucrose, reduces nitrate and is nonproteolytic.

(Clostridium tertium, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase positive, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, produces carbonic anhydrase, does not hydrolyze tributyrin, is non-hemolytic, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose, or lactose.

(Neisseria cinerea, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, pigmented, susceptible to colistin, produces polysaccharides from sucrose, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of hydrolases that cleaves alpha-linkages in polysaccharides, such as starch and glycogen, and yield glucose and maltose.

(Alpha-Amylase, NCI Thesaurus)