Organic Chemical
galactans
Subclass of:
Polysaccharides
Definitions related to galactans:
  • Polymers composed of galactose residues and occurring in plants, for example, agar.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Polysaccharides composed of repeating galactose units. They can consist of branched or unbranched chains in any linkages.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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