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What is a disaccharide?

What is a disaccharide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
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For example, fruit pulp of many species contains the disaccharide sucrose and the hexoses, glucose and fructose.
The minute amounts of the sulfated disaccharide which are absorbed are primarily excreted in the urine.
Bacteria, predominantly mutans streptococci, metabolize monosaccharide and disaccharide sugars to produce acid that demineralizes teeth and causes cavities.
Trehalose, a disaccharide of glucose, and sucrose can be viewed as naturally occurring stabilizing agents.
Use of a disaccharide as stabilizer for liquid protein mixtures comprising an agent for preventing microbial growth.
This antigen had rhamnose side chains at least a disaccharide in length and was the antigenic determinant of A-variant carbohydrate.

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