sugar of milk

American  

noun

1. lactose.

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sugar of milk British  

noun

1. another name for lactose

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Etymology

Origin of sugar of milk

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

From Project Gutenberg

One drop of their solution is considered sufficient to saturate three hundred globules of sugar of milk; and three or four of these globules are deemed a powerful medicine.

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Origin.—Lactic acid is obtained from sour milk, resulting from the fermentation of the sugar of milk under the influence of casein.

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For this purpose I got a lot of live cockroaches, killed them and pounded to a fine pulp and triturated according to class IX of American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia, that is, two parts by weight of the substance and nine parts by weight of sugar of milk, giving 1x trituration.

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PREPARATION.—The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.

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