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Oligosaccharide Common

Oligosaccharide has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

2

A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.

See Also
mannanoligosaccharide everninomicin alglucerase heterooligosaccharide tetrasaccharide octaose pentasaccharide sialotriantennary
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
carbohydrate
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
disaccharide tetrasaccharide trisaccharide
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