Relating to or derived from a hexose (six-carbon sugar) or hexonic acid.
From hexose (six-carbon sugar) + -ic (adjective suffix). This term emerged in biochemistry as researchers studied the properties and derivatives of six-carbon sugars.
Hexonic acids—the oxidized forms of hexoses—are biochemically important because they're one of the main ways your body transforms sugars into other molecules it needs, revealing how a simple modification changes a sugar's entire function.
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