-ose
(Latin: full of, abounding in, having the qualities of, characteristic of something)
decompose
1. To separate into constituent parts, or to cause something to separate into its constituent parts.
2. To break down organic matter from a complex to a simpler form, mainly through the action of fungi and bacteria, or to be broken down in this way.
3. To break something down into smaller or simpler parts.
depose
1. To remove someone from office or from a position of power.
2. To give evidence or to testify under oath, either in a written or verbal form.
3. To request and to record evidence from a witness.
dextroglucose
An isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits; dextrose (dextrorotatory form of glucose found naturally in animal and plant tissue and derived synthetically from starch).
diagnose, diagnosed
1. To determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis.
2. To determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: "The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza."
3. To ascertain the cause or nature of (a disorder, malfunction, problem, etc.) from the symptoms: "The mechanic diagnosed the trouble that caused the car to bread down."
4. To classify or to determine on the basis of scientific examination.
excerebrose
febriculose
A slight or temporary attack of fever of indefinite origin or pathology.
fibroadipose
1. Relating to or containing both fibrous and fatty structures.
2. Fibrous degeneration of glandular tissue.
floccose, floccosely
1. In biology, pertaining to a growth consisting of short and densely but irregularyly interwoven filaments.
2. Woolly; bearing flocci; specifically, in botany, having tufts of soft woolly hairs, which are often deciduous.
flocculose
Minutely floccose.
foliose
fructose
1. A chemical name occurring in honey and many sweet fruits and a component of many disaccharides and polysaccharides that are obtained by inversion of aqueous solutions of sucrose and subsequent separation of fructose from glucose.
2. The official preparation, administered intravenously in solution as a fluid and nutrient replenisher.
3. A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits.
Fructose is a "sugar found in fruit', from 1864, coined in English from Latin fructus ccurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits. It is used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient. Also called: levulose and fruit sugar.
fumose
1. Full of fumes, giving off fumes, vaporous, flatulent.
2. Smoky, thick with smoke, like smoke.
galactose
A white crystalline sugar found in certain plant gums and mucilages and one of the principal constituents of lactose, which is the main sugar of milk.
globose
1. Having the shape of a globe; globelike.
2. Spherical or almost round; globular.
glucose
1. A simple sugar produced in plants by photosynthesis and in animals by the conversion of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The commonest form, dextrose, is used by all living organisms.
2. A syrup containing dextrose, maltose, dexrin, and water that is obtained from starch and used in food manufacture and in alcoholic fermentation.