Medical Dictionary

oligosaccharide

noun oli·go·sac·cha·ride \ˌäl-i-gō-ˈsak-ə-ˌrīd, ˌō-li-\

Medical Definition of OLIGOSACCHARIDE

:  a saccharide (as a disaccharide) that contains a known small number of monosaccharide units

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