noun. Any of a class of monosaccharide sugars containing an aldehyde group.

noun. A name given to any monosaccharide which is an aldehyde to distinguish it from a ketose, which contams a ketone-group.

noun. Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group.

noun. a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal

"It has been proposed that the open chain aldose while on the enzyme undergoes torsional inversion at the C2-C3 bond before ring closing."

ketose  

monosaccharide  monosaccharose  simple sugar  

aldohexose  

alpha-glucosidase  caspase  chelate  cholinesterase  cyclooxygenase