Meaning Of The Word Glycogen
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Glycogen Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Glycogen?
glycogen in American English
a polysaccharide, (C6 H10 O5) x, produced and stored in animal tissues, esp. in the liver and muscles, and changed into glucose as the body needs it noun: a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C6H10O5)n, molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts glycogen in British English noun: a polysaccharide consisting of glucose units: the form in which carbohydrate is stored in the liver and muscles in humans and animals. It can easily be hydrolysed to glucose |
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