noun
Rare chemistry term for dextrose, a form of glucose. In modern Japanese, ブドウ糖 or the katakana デキストロース are far more common.
See also: ブドウ糖
右旋糖は化学の文献で見られる古い呼び方で、現在はブドウ糖と呼ばれることが多い。
右旋糖 is an old term found in chemistry literature; nowadays it is more often called ブドウ糖.
Compound of 右旋 (right-handed rotation, referring to optical activity) and 糖 (sugar). The term is a direct calque from the concept of dextrose, which rotates plane-polarized light to the right.