Word Meanings - GLYCOGENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• LIVERWORT
  1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• LIVERING
  A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. Chapman.
• LIVERIED
  Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.
• LIVERED
  Having a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• LIVERYMAN
  1. One who wears a livery, as a servant. 2. A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges,
• LIVER
  1. One who, or that which, lives. And try if life be worth the liver's care. Prior. 2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn. 3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver. Fast
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• COD LIVER
  The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• CLIVERS
  See CLEAVERS
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.