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

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

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

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

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, 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

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.