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

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animal starch

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

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

From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

Glycogen is, on this account, called animal starch.

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

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 R. L. Alsaker

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

From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

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