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Definition of Disaccharide

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

Definition of Disaccharide

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together. ¹

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Definition of Disaccharide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Disaccharide

1. A sugar such as sucrose, which is made up of two monosaccharides: one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule. Two common disaccharides are sucrose and lactose. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disaccharide

Literary usage of Disaccharide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"disaccharide which has two of the atoms extinguished by combination with two distinct bodies. To the same class of mixed compounds belong also ..."

2. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill, Benjamin Moore (1908)
"found that in very concentrated solutions, the ferment of malt, maltase, caused the formation of a disaccharide from glucose. In his earlier work Croft Hill ..."

3. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"The synthetic disaccharide was, very naturally, assumed to be Maltose, but further investigation showed that the prediction of Van't Hoff had not been so ..."

4. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"... disaccharide. The following equation illustrates the principle of the ... The disaccharide upon boiling with dilute mineral acids is hydro- lyzed into ..."

5. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"It is very similar in its general properties to isomaltose. Cellobiose is a disaccharide which results from the hydrolysis of cellulose. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Thus it might be expected that an enzyme which effected the hydrolysis of a disaccharide into two hexose molecules would, when added to a mixture of these ..."

7. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"It is very similar in its general properties to isomaltose. Cellobiose is a disaccharide which results from the hydrolysis of cellulose ..."

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