dextrose

From dextro- +‎ -ose (“right sugar”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/

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dextrose (countable and uncountable, plural dextroses)

1. The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
   • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎, London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

     The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

Levose is not the antonym L-glucose form, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research. "Levose" is a misspelling of levulose (also misspelled as levolose), D-fructose, due to those origins.

• D-glucose / D-Glucose
• dextroglucose

• L-glucose / L-Glucose (levorotatory form of glucose)

• glucose
• aldohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

• dextrin

• polydextrose

• dextrin
• levulose (left sugar)

• detoxers

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dextrose m (uncountable)

1. dextrose (sugar)

• “dextrose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.