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Cori cycle

Cori cycle proper noun: the metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in the muscles moves to the liver and is converted to glucose, which then returns to the muscles and is metabolized back to lactate.

Proper noun

Cori cycle

  1. The metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in the muscles moves to the liver and is converted to glucose, which then returns to the muscles and is metabolized back to lactate.

Cori cycle meaning in Tamil

Cori cycle in Tamil

கோரி வட்டம்

Origin of Cori cycle

Named after its discoverers, Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori.

Questions about Cori cycle

What does Cori cycle mean?
Cori cycle means the metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in the muscles moves to the liver and is converted to glucose, which then returns to the muscles and is metabolized back to lactate.
What is Cori cycle in Tamil?
Cori cycle in Tamil is கோரி வட்டம். See Cori cycle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Cori cycle?
Cori cycle is a proper noun.

Words near Cori cycle in the dictionary

  1. corgwn
  2. corgy
  3. Corhampton
  4. Corhampton and Meonstoke
  5. CORI
  6. Cori cycle
  7. coria
  8. coriaceous
  9. coriaceously
  10. coriacious
  11. coriamyrtin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cori cycle (page history and authors); cori cycle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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