oligosaccharide

See also: Oligosaccharide

English

Etymology

From oligo- +‎ saccharide

Noun

oligosaccharide (plural oligosaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.

Derived terms

• chitooligosaccharide
• diphosphooligosaccharide
• fructooligosaccharide
• galactooligosaccharide
• glucooligosaccharide
• isomaltooligosaccharide
• lipooligosaccharide
• maltooligosaccharide
• mannooligosaccharide
• oligosaccharidic
• oligosaccharidosis
• pseudooligosaccharide
• sialyloligosaccharide

 

Translations

polysaccharide of low molecular weight

• Catalan: oligosacàrid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寡醣／寡糖 (gwaa² tong⁴), 寡糖 (gwaa² tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 寡醣／寡糖 (guǎtáng), 寡糖 (guǎtáng)

• Finnish: oligosakkaridi
• French: oligosaccharide (fr) m, oligoholoside (fr) m, oligoside (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: oligoszacharid
• Italian: oligosaccaride (it) m
• Japanese: オリゴ糖 (オリゴとう, origotō)
• Romanian: oligozaharidă (ro) f
• Spanish: oligosacárido m