glycogenicadj.

1858 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 7) 688 The glycogenic matter passes through a state corresponding to dextrin into sugar.

1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 86 Glucogenic matter.

1864 H. Power Carpenter's Princ. Human Physiol. (ed. 6) ix. 387 It appears that another purpose is fulfilled by the Liver—the production of an amyloid substance termed Glycogen; and we shall now proceed to consider the chief facts..in reference to this so-called ‘Glycogenic function of the Liver’.

1872 A. Flint in Physiol. Man IV. viii. 243 The view which we have advanced with regard to the glycogenic function is that the liver is constantly producing sugar during life.

1889 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. Glycogenic acid. Formed by treating an aqueous solution of glycogen at 100° with bromine, and then adding Ag₂O... Very acid syrup. Is perhaps identical with gluconic acid.

1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 282/1 Glycogenic, pertaining to glycogenesis or to glycogen.

1913 Proc. Royal Soc. 1912–13 B. 86 560 The liver will be found to contain only traces of glycogen. This effect is due to an inhibition of the glycogenic function of the liver.

1926 J. J. R. Macleod Carbohydrate Metabolism & Insulin xi. 159 In the strict sense, the term glycogenic should be restricted to the formation of glycogen from protein (and fat) and its breakdown to sugar, rather than to the polymerisation of sugar itself into that substance.

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glycogenesis.

1897 Lippincott's Med. Dict. 434/2 Glycogenesis, the formation of sugar, or of glycogen.

1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 282/1 Glycogenesis, the production of sugar or of glycogen.

1970 W. V. Thorpe et al. Biochemistry (ed. 9) xix. 251 The reactions involved in muscle glycogenesis are the same as those in liver glycogenesis.

1872 J. L. W. Thudichum Man. Chem. Physiol. 8 The glycogenetic function of the liver.

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 161 A glycogenous substance may also be derived from albuminates.

1888 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 311 (note) Similar glycogenous cells are met with in the walls of the lacunar spaces and on the ‘mesenteries’ of the Snail.

1889 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Glycogeny.