gluconeogenesis

English

Etymology

gluco- +‎ neogenesis

Noun

gluconeogenesis (usually uncountable, plural gluconeogeneses)

  1. (biochemistry) The metabolic process in which glucose is formed, mostly in the liver, from non-carbohydrate precursors
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