Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a class of carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose, consisting of a number of monosaccharides joined by glycosidic bonds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the group of complex carbohydrates which yield simple sugars when hydrolyzed by the action of enzymes, acids, or alkalis. The term sometimes includes the disaccharides and trisaccharides, but is more correctly limited to substances of the general formula (C6H10O5)n, where n is probably a large number. Starch, cellulose, dextrine, glycogen, and gums are polysaccharides.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules
Examples
“The pneumococcal polysaccharide is linked to a harmless protein.”
“The first example of the fundamental role of the sugar nucleotides in polysaccharide biosynthesis was found by Leloir in 1959 in the case of glycogen.”
“Ultraviolet light breaks open chitosan, a complex carbohydrate called a polysaccharide, revealing another set of reactive arms.”
“A polysaccharide is a carbohydrate composed of many single sugar molecules bonded to each other, to be clear.”
“The "polysaccharide" vaccine is given as a single shot to children between 2 years and 6 years of age.”
“The "polysaccharide" vaccine is made from the sugar that coats the surface of the bacteria.”
“The authoritative book discusses polysaccharides utilized in medical applications such as polysaccharide-based hydrogels, polysialic acids, proteoglycans, glycolipids, and anticoagulant polysaccharides; renewable resources for the production of various industrial chemicals and engineering plastics polysaccharides; and more.”
“Like the Hib vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine is made from the sugar coating (polysaccharide) of the bacteria.”
“A meningococcal vaccine, made using only the polysaccharide coating of meningococcus, has been available for several years.”
“Meningococcus is similar to pneumococcus and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in that protection against disease occurs when one develops antibodies to the sugar (or polysaccharide) that coats the bacterium.”
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