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

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animal starch

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 Woods Hutchinson

Thus we have animal starch, or glycogen, stored up in the liver.

From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

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 Martha Meir Allen

Glycogen is, on this account, called animal starch.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters

This substance, extracted in the form of a white powder, is really an animal starch.

From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell