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maltose

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maltose /mal·tose/ (mawl´tos) a disaccharide composed of two glucose residues, the fundamental structural unit of glycogen and starch.
mal·tose (môlts, -tz)
n.
A white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starch.

maltose
(môl´tōs),
n malt sugar, a disaccharide formed in the hydrolysis of starch and consisting of two glucose residues bound by an α(1,4)-glycoside link.

maltose
a sugar (disaccharide) formed when starch is hydrolyzed by amylase.

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