glycosen.

1856 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. Sept. 233 The arterial blood, from what ever point of the circulatory apparatus it may be taken, contains always, in the same animal, the same proportion of glycose.

1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi vii. 358 The mycelium of Penicillium and of Aspergillus niger when growing in solution of tannin breaks up the tannin into gallic acid and glycose.

1876 Nature 29 June 204/1 The sugar found normally in blood of animals ranks among glycoses.

1896 Amer. Chem. Jrnl. 18 257 For these simple monosaccharides, which all reduce alkaline copper solution, the general name ‘glycose’ is suggested, the distinction being made between this class and ‘glucose’ or grape sugar.

1948 W. Pigman Chem. Carbohydrates viii. 362 Attention has already been drawn to the practical analogy between the glycoses and the glykitols with respect to cyclization during reaction.

2009 J. C. Young & E. M. Abdel-Aal in P. R. Shewry & J. L. Ward Anal. Bioactive Components xii. 142 A second type of diversity arises from the wide variety of possible sugars such as the monopentoses arabinose and xylose, monohexoses galactose and glucose, and dimeric glycoses such as rutinose.