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monosaccharide

noun mono·sac·cha·ride \ˌmän-ə-ˈsak-ə-ˌrīd\

Medical Definition of MONOSACCHARIDE

:  a sugar not decomposable to simpler sugars by hydrolysis—called also simple sugar

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