deoxyribose

English

Etymology

deoxy- +‎ ribose

Noun

deoxyribose (countable and uncountable, plural deoxyriboses)

1. (biochemistry) A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

Alternative forms

• desoxyribose

Derived terms

• deoxyribose nucleic acid

Translations

derivative of ribose

• Afrikaans: deoksiribose
• Catalan: desoxiribosa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脫氧核糖／脱氧核糖 (tyut³ joeng⁵ hat⁶ tong⁴), 去氧核糖 (heoi³ joeng⁵ hat⁶ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 脫氧核糖／脱氧核糖 (zh) (tuōyǎng hétáng), 去氧核糖 (zh) (qùyǎng hétáng)

• Danish: deoxyribose
• Dutch: deoxyribose
• French: désoxyribose (fr)
• German: Desoxyribose
• Italian: deossiribosio m
• Japanese: デオキシリボース (deokishiribōsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rîboza kêmoksîjen

• Polish: deoksyryboza (pl) f, dezoksyryboza (pl) f
• Portuguese: desoxirribose
• Romanian: dezoxiriboză
• Russian: дезоксирибоза (ru) (dezoksiriboza)
• Spanish: desoxirribosa f
• Swedish: deoxiribos (sv)