animal starch

American  

noun

Biochemistry.

1. glycogen.

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animal starch British  

noun

1. a less common name for glycogen

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Etymology

Origin of animal starch

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Glycogen, glī′kō-jen, n. animal starch, a substance first discovered by Claude Bernard in the human liver—when pure, a white, amorphous, tasteless powder, insoluble in alcohol.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Its cells also store up, “in the form of a kind of animal starch called glycogen,” excess of starchy or sugary food absorbed from the intestine during the digestion of a meal.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir

And as a considerable part of the casein, or curd, is composed of another starch-like body, or animal starch, this makes milk quite rich in the starch-sugar group of food-stuffs.

From A Handbook of Health by Hutchinson, Woods

Extraction of the liver then revealed the presence in it of a form of starch, an animal starch, which Bernard called glycogen, the sugar-maker.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

Glycogen, or "animal starch," is one of the most widely distributed reserve foods of the animal body; in fact, it is the only known form of carbohydrate-reserve in animal tissues.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred