glycogen

glycogen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French glycogène.

Noun

glycogen (countable and uncountable, plural glycogens)

1. (biochemistry) A polysaccharide that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals; converted to glucose as needed.

Derived terms

• glycogenosis

Translations

polysaccharide that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals

Chinese: Mandarin: 糖原 (zh) (tángyuán) Czech: glykogen m Dutch: glycogeen (nl) n Esperanto: glikogeno Finnish: glykogeeni (fi) French: glycogène (fr) m German: Glykogen n Greek: γλυκογόνο (el) n (glykogóno) Icelandic: glýkógen n, dýrasterkja f Ido: glikogeno (io)

Italian: glicogeno (it) m Japanese: 糖原 (とうげん, tōgen), グリコーゲン (gurikōgen) Korean: 글리코젠 (geullikojen) Malay: glikogen, kanji haiwan Persian: گلیکوژن‎ (fa) (gelikožen) Portuguese: glicogénio m (Portugal), glicogênio (pt) m (Brazil) Russian: гликоге́н (ru) m (glikogén) Spanish: glucógeno (es) m Swedish: glykogen (sv) Turkish: glikojen (tr)