glycogen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French glycogène.

Noun

glycogen (countable and uncountable, plural glycogens)

(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)

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