DISACCHARIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disaccharide mean? 

• DISACCHARIDE (noun)
  The noun DISACCHARIDE has 1 sense:

1. any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

  Familiarity information: DISACCHARIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISACCHARIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("disaccharide" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disaccharide"):

lactose; milk sugar (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk)

malt sugar; maltose (a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches)

saccharose; sucrose (a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent)

 Context examples 

The clinical course leads to malabsorption of disaccharides which has implications for normal growth and development if manifested at an early age.

(Intestinal Disaccharidase Deficiency and Disaccharide Malabsorption, NCI Thesaurus)

A disaccharide consisting of a galactose linked by a beta-1,4 glycosidic bond to a glucose.

(Lactose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Hyaluronic Acid Binding involves a biophysical interaction between a biological molecule, such as a protein, and hyaluronic acid, a linear glycosaminoglycan of repeating disaccharide units, in proteoglycans.

(Hyaluronic Acid Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

A flavonoid comprised of the flavanone hesperetin and the disaccharide rutinose.

(Hesperidin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis consists of cellular enzymatic reactions that produce heparan sulfate, a glycosaminoglycan of repeating disaccharide units, in most cell plasma membranes.

(Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis, NCI Thesaurus)

This enzyme also catalyzes the synthesis of the disaccharide lactose, the sugar found in milk.

(Lactose Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A disaccharide (sugar) synthesized from fructose and galactose, Lactulose is used to treat constipation and some liver diseases.

(Lactulose, NCI Thesaurus)

A flavonoid comprised of the flavanone naringenin and the disaccharide rutinose.

(Naringin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Miglitol binds to and inhibits alpha-glucosidase, an enteric enzyme found in the brush border of the small intestines that hydrolyzes oligosaccharides and disaccharides into glucose and other monosaccharides.

(Miglitol, NCI Thesaurus)

A disaccharide consisting of two glucose units linked through an alpha-1,4 glycosidic bond.

(Maltose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)