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LACTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)
Example:
lactic fermentation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)
Context examples:
A measurement of the lactic acid in a biological specimen.
(Lactic Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Signs and symptoms include myotonia, dysfunction of the heart, kidney, and brain, and lactic acidosis.
(Cytochrome-C Oxidase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is catalase negative, requires folic acid for growth in culture, ferments arabinose and melibiose, does not ferment citrate, does not reduce tetrazolium and is a lactic acid bacteria.
(Enterococcus faecium, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic family of lactic acid bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes.
(Aerococcaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
A live form of a bacterium that makes lactic acid (a substance that is made from sugars found in milk and is also made in the body).
(Culturelle, NCI Dictionary)
Benfosformin is associated with an increased risk of lactic acidosis.
(Benfosformin, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic family of Gram positive, lactic acid bacterium in the phylum Firmicutes.
(Carnobacteriaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, lactic acid bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes.
(Enterococcus, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is nonmotile, nonsporulating, catalase and oxidase negative and produces lactic acid from glucose fermentation.
(Abiotrophia defectiva, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes.
(MELAS Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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