Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in brain-tissue.
  • In pathology, brain-sick; mad; headstrong; passionate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol. Chem.) A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

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  • noun organic chemistry A sugar-like body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

Etymologies

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cerebrum +‎ -ose

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