Definition of "mucopolysaccharide" []

• See glycosaminoglycan. (noun)

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• "We're bacterial-sized but we have a metal skin and not a mucopolysaccharide cell-wall."
• "Sodium hyaluronate is a structure of mucopolysaccharide composed by hydrophilic molecules of glucuronic acid and n-acetyl glucosamine, which bind water and carry the essential nutrition to skins."
• "It may be that most of the sightings are some form of mucopolysaccharide, but with differnt sources of the mucopolysaccharide."