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

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

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

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

Glycogen is, on this account, called animal starch.

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

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.

The human body contains a small amount of a substance called glycogen, which is an animal starch or sugar.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.