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Ribulose (medicine)


ribulose


D-erythro-Pentulose; d-adonose; d-erythro-2-ketopentose;the 2-keto isomer of ribose. As the 5-phosphate, it participates in the pentose monophosphate shunt; as the 1,5-bisphosphate, it combines with CO2 at the start of the photosynthetic process in green plants ("carbon dioxide trap"); d-ribulose is the epimer of d-xylulose.


Jacobin(2) (iou)



Jacobin noun1 & adjective1. ME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin Jacobinus from ecclesiastical Latin Jacobus: see JACOB, -IN2. Sense 1 from assoc. with the church of S. Jacques in Paris.]
A. noun.
A friar of the order of St Dominic; a Dominican. ME.
Hist. A member of a French political society established in 1789 at the old Dominican convent in Paris to maintain and propagate the principles of democracy and equality. L18.
A sympathizer with the principles of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; a radical or revolutionary in Politics or social organization. L18.
M. J. Lasky The Black Jacobins of Africa.
b. adjective.
Of or pertaining to the Dominican friars. M16.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of the French Revolution (Hist.); radical, revolutionary. L18.
E. P. Thompson The Jacobin tradition..of self-Education and of rational criticism of political and religious institutions.
Jaco'binic,
Jaco'binical adjectives of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; radical: L18.
Jacobinize verb trans. imbue with radical or revolutionary ideas L18.