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Lactose

//ˈlæk.toʊs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.

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