Term

glycogen

The stored form of sugar in the liver and muscles, sometimes called animal starch. When needed, the liver turns it back into sugar.

Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage, Walter Cannon

Explained in

• Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage, Walter Cannon
• Hormones, Metabolism and the Benefits of Exercise, Bruce Spiegelman (ed.)

  Sugar stored in muscles and the liver. A muscle uses it during intense work and restores it from the carbohydrates in food.

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