polysaccharides

Preferred Label : polysaccharides;

IUPAC definition : Compounds consisting of a large number of monosaccharides linked glycosidically. This term is commonly used only for those containing more than ten monosaccharide residues. Also called glycans.;

Details

Origin ID

P04752;

UMLS CUI

C0032594;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Dietary Polysaccharide [NCIt concept]
- Polysaccharides [PASCAL theme]
- polysaccharide [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Polysaccharide [NCIt concept]
- Polysaccharide [FMA entity]
- Polysaccharide (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- polysaccharide, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- polysaccharides [MeSH Descriptor]
- polysaccharides [MeSH concept]
See also
- biopolymers [IUPAC Term]
- carbohydrates [IUPAC Term]
- glycans [IUPAC Term]
- glycosaminoglycan [IUPAC Term]
- heteropolysaccharide [IUPAC Term]
- homopolysaccharide [IUPAC Term]
- lectins [IUPAC Term]
- monosaccharides [IUPAC Term]
- mucopolysaccharides [IUPAC Term]
- polyelectrolyte [IUPAC Term]
- prosthetic group [IUPAC Term]
- proteoglycan [IUPAC Term]
- saccharides [IUPAC Term]
Semantic type(s)
- Organic Chemical [UMLS semantic type]
- Pharmacologic Substance [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Polysaccharide [FMA entity]
- Polysaccharide [NCIt concept]
- Polysaccharide (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- polysaccharide, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- polysaccharides [MeSH Descriptor]
- polysaccharides [MeSH concept]

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