Organic Chemical
monosaccharide Audio
mon·o·sac·cha·ride [ mon-uh-sak-uh-rahyd, -er-id ]
Subclass of:
Sugars
Definitions related to monosaccharides:
  • A carbohydrate which cannot be reduced to smaller units by hydrolysis; it is the simplest structural form of a carbohydrate.
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • Simple sugar; a carbohydrate which cannot be decomposed by hydrolysis, consisting of a colorless crystalline substance having a sweet taste and the general formula n(CH2O).
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Single chain carbohydrates that are the most basic units of CARBOHYDRATES. They are typically colorless crystalline substances with a sweet taste and have the same general formula CnH2nOn.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Monosaccharide, any of the basic compounds that serve as the building blocks of carbohydrates. Monosaccharides are polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones; that is, they are molecules with more than one hydroxyl group (?OH), and a carbonyl group (C=O) either at the terminal carbon atom (aldose) or at the...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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