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say it: GLAHY-kuh-jin
glycogen is a noun meaning "one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body". It is pronounced /ˈɡlaɪkədʒɪn/ — GLAHY-kuh-jin. It carries one recorded sense.
one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glycogen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.