oligosaccharide

oligosaccharide

See also: Oligosaccharide

English

Etymology

From oligo- +‎ saccharide

Noun

oligosaccharide (plural oligosaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) a polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units

Derived terms

• chitooligosaccharide
• diphosphooligosaccharide
• fructooligosaccharide
• galactooligosaccharide
• glucooligosaccharide
• isomaltooligosaccharide
• lipooligosaccharide
• maltooligosaccharide
• mannooligosaccharide
• oligosaccharidic
• oligosaccharidosis
• pseudooligosaccharide
• sialyloligosaccharide

 

Translations

polysaccharide of low molecular weight

Chinese: Cantonese: 寡醣, 寡糖 (gwaa2 tong4) Mandarin: 寡醣, 寡糖 (guǎtáng) Finnish: oligosakkaridi French: oligosaccharide (fr) m, oligoholoside (fr) m, oligoside (fr) m

Hungarian: oligoszacharid Italian: oligosaccaride (it) m Japanese: オリゴ糖 (オリゴとう, origotō) Romanian: oligozaharidă (ro) f Spanish: oligosacárido m