Medical Definition of COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATE. : a polysaccharide (as starch or cellulose) consisting of usually hundreds or thousands of monosaccharide units; also: a food (as rice or pasta) composed primarily of such polysaccharides.ADVERTISEMENT.noun.efinition of COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATE. : a polysaccharide (as starch or cellulose) consisting of usually hundreds or thousands of monosaccharide units; also: a food (as rice or pasta) composed primarily of such polysaccharides. ADVERTISEMENT. noun.
Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Pyridoxine. Pyridoxine is one of the compounds that can be called vitamin B6, along with pyridoxal and pyridoxamine. It differs from pyridoxamine by the substituent at the '4' position. Its hydrochloride salt pyridoxine hydrochloride is often used.
Medical Definition of saxitoxin. : a potent nonprotein neurotoxin C10H17N7O4Â·2HCl that originates especially in dinoflagellates (as of the genera Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium) found in red tides and causes paralytic shellfish poisoning when ingested in contaminated shellfish.