Glycogen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GLYCOGEN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• animal starch, as found in the liver
• a substance deposited in bodily tissues as a store of carbohydrates. It is a polysaccharide which forms glucose on hydrolysis.
• starchlike carbohydrate stored in the liver and muscles of humans and animals
• A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.
• one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a carbohydrate

Words related to GLYCOGEN

glycogenic19 glycogens16

Words that contain GLYCOGEN

glycogens16 glycogenic19 glycogeneses19 glycogenesis19 glycogenetic21 glycogenolyses24 glycogenolysis24 glycogenolytic26

How to use GLYCOGEN in a sentence

• It converts a large share of the grape-sugar and partially digested starch brought to it into a kind of liver starch, termed glycogen, which it stores up in its tissues.
• Flesh contains no starch or sugar, but a small quantity of glycogen.

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