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The carbohydrate of milk, sometimes called milk sugar, a disaccharide of glucose and galactose. A 12-carbon disaccharide milk sugar derived from whey. A disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose; milk sugar. The sugar found in milk. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose. Sugar in milk, needing lactasein enzyme to digest. Milk sugar.…

One whose diet excludes meat and fish but permits milk and eggs. A person consuming a vegetarian diet that includes eggs and dairy products.  

The add produced by the anaerobic fermentation of carbohydrates. Originally discovered in sour milk, it is responsible for the flavour of fermented milk and for the precipitation of the casein curd in cottage cheese.  

The enzyme that breaks down lactose (milk sugar) to galactose-glucose in the small intestine. An enzyme required for the digestion of lactose into glucose and galactose. An enzyme, secreted in the small intestine, which converts milk sugar into glucose and galactose. Enzyme secreted by glands in the small intestine that converts lactose (milk sugar) into…

A neuropsychological battery of tests consisting of 14 scales that assess writing, reading, arithmetic, and receptive and expressive language abilities as well as motor, tactile, auditory (rhythm), visual, memory, and intellectual functioning. The battery may detect both the presence of brain injury or a brain abnormality and its location and may indicate how the injury…

Brand name for the nonbenzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic drug eszopiclone.  

Brand name (now discontinued) for the tetracyclic antidepressant drug maprotiline. A commercial preparation of maprotiline.