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Definition of Tetrasaccharide
1. Noun. Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis.
Definition of Tetrasaccharide
1. Noun. (carbohydrates) Any oligosaccharide having four sugar residues ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Tetrasaccharide
1. A sugar containing four molecules of a monosaccharide; e.g., stachyose. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrasaccharide
Literary usage of Tetrasaccharide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"This would correspond to a tetrasaccharide made up of 2 molecules of d-galactose
and 1 molecule each of d-glucose and d-fructose; additional investigation ..."
2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"This would correspond to a tetrasaccharide made up of 2 molecules of d-galactose
and 1 molecule each of d-glucose and d-fructose; additional investigation ..."
3. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"This would correspond to a tetrasaccharide made up of 2 molecules of d-galactose
and 1 molecule each of d-glucose and d-fructose; additional investigation ..."
4. Physiological chemistry by Albert Prescott Mathews (1915)
"... which is probably a tetrasaccharide from the seeds of Lupinus luteus and
angustifolius, by hydrolysis yields one-half of the sugar as galactose. ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"If we exclude the not well known trisaccharides and the tetrasaccharide stachyose
this group includes a great number of very complex carbohydrates which ..."
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