Animal starch

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Historical Examples

Some 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 Hutchinson

Thus we have animal starch, or glycogen, stored up in the liver.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

animal starch found in liver, which may be changed into glucose.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

This substance, extracted in the form of a white powder, is really an animal starch.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

noun
a less common name for glycogen

animal starch n.
See glycogen.

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