Organic Chemical
disaccharide Audio
di·sac·cha·ride [ dahy-sak-uh-rahyd, -rid ]
Subclass of:
Oligosaccharides; Sugars
Definitions related to disaccharides:
  • A carbohydrate comprised of two monosaccharides joined by an ether bridge (covalent bonds centered by an oxygen).
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • Oligosaccharide containing two monosaccharide units linked by a glycosidic bond.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Oligosaccharides containing two monosaccharide units linked by a glycosidic bond.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Disaccharide, any substance that is composed of two molecules of simple sugars (monosaccharides) linked to each other. Disaccharides are crystalline water-soluble compounds. The monosaccharides within them are linked by a glycosidic bond (or glycosidic linkage), the position of which may be...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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