| 单词 | lactose |
| 释义 | lactose (once / 41472 pages) n Lactose is the kind of sugar that's found in milk and other foods made from milk. Some people have trouble digesting lactose and avoid eating dairy products. No cheese stick for you! You might learn about lactose in chemistry class, including the fact that it's made of two sugars, glucose and galactose. Lactose is broken down into these simpler sugars by lactase, an enzyme that most of us have plenty of. However, if you're one of the people without enough lactase, eating food with lactose can be unpleasant. The lacto- comes from the Latin lac, or "milk," and the chemical suffix -ose tells you it's a sugar. WORD FAMILYlactose USAGE EXAMPLESA personal passion: At age 9, Ritter was diagnosed with lactose intolerance. Los Angeles Times(Dec 04, 2016) What gluten intolerance did for bread, lactose intolerance is doing to milk. The Guardian(Nov 21, 2016) Duffin said investigators believe Harris, of Rockford, "snapped" and killed the child, who was lactose intolerant, because he had been crying after drinking milk. Reuters(Nov 15, 2016) n a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose Syn|Hyper milk sugar disaccharide any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。