Bernard, of the liver's glycogenic function, i.e. of the important part played by the liver in the metabolism of sugar in the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1934 - Presentation Speech] Reference

In seeking for the fountain-head of diabetic sugar, it is found that the liver is the great glycogenic, or sugar-originating factory of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

His studies on the glycogenic functions of the liver opened the way for the modern fruitful researches on the internal secretions of the various glands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

This was followed by the discovery of the glycogenic function of the liver — perhaps his most noteworthy achievement, particularly on account of its bearing on current views in biology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

He discovered the glycogenic function of the liver, and proved that in addition to secreting bile, that organ stores up glycogen from the sugar absorbed in the stomach and intestines, and gives it out again as sugar to the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

This capacity of the liver cells is quite independent of the bile-making power of the same cells; hence the discovery of this glycogenic function showed that an organ may have more than one pronounced and important specific function.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference

As regards the ductless glands, the first clew to their function was given when the great Frenchman Claude Bernard (the man of whom his admirers loved to say, "He is not a physiologist merely; he is physiology itself") discovered what is spoken of as the glycogenic function of the liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference