phosphagen

phosphagen
/fos"feuh jeuhn, -jen'/, n. Biochem.
a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
[1925-30; PHOSPHA(TE) + -GEN]

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