GLUCURONIC ACID


Meaning of GLUCURONIC ACID in English

|glükyə|ränik- noun

Etymology: glucuronic from gluc- + Greek ouron urine + English -ic — more at urine

: a crystalline aldehyde-acid HOOC(CHOH) 4 CHO obtainable from gum arabic by hydrolysis or from methyl glucoside by oxidation and occurring naturally especially in the urine combined as glucuronides with toxic metabolic products (as phenols or indoxyl) or with steroid hormones

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.