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Origin of animal starch
First recorded in 1855–60
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How to use animal starch in a sentence
This substance, extracted in the form of a white powder, is really an animal starch.
A Practical Physiology|Albert F. BlaisdellSome of the sugars, for instance, the liver turns into a kind of animal starch (glycogen), which it stores away in its own cells.
A Handbook of Health|Woods HutchinsonThus we have animal starch, or glycogen, stored up in the liver.
A Practical Physiology|Albert F. BlaisdellAnimal starch found in liver, which may be changed into glucose.
A Practical Physiology|Albert F. Blaisdell
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