amygdalin 的定义
Chemistry, Pharmacology.
- a white, bitter-tasting, water-soluble, glycosidic powder, C20H27NO11, usually obtained from bitter almond seeds and the leaves of plants of the genus Prunus and related genera: used chiefly in medicine as an expectorant.
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- Amygdalin, Amygdaline, a-mig′da-lin, n. a crystalline principle existing in the kernel of bitter almonds.
- Emulsine has the property of being able to hydrolyse the glucoside amygdalin to glucose, benzaldehyde, and hydrocyanic acid.
- Amygdalin was first discovered in 1830, and was one of the first substances to be recognized as a glucoside.
- In the amygdalin molecule, it exists in the dextro form, which has been named "prunasin."
- It is, therefore, similar to amygdalin, except that one glucose molecule is replaced by arabinose.