inogen Physiol.
(ˈaɪnəʊdʒɛn)
[f. ino- + -gen 1.]
Hermann's term for a hypothetical complex substance supposed to exist in muscular fibre and to be the energy-yielding substance of muscle.
Supposed to be decomposed during muscular contraction into carbonic and sarcolactic acids and myosin (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
| 1889 H. Campbell Causation Disease iv. 22 It [the nervous system] may even be urging them on to some specific effort as when the muscle inogen is exploded. |
Hence inoˈgenic a., of or pertaining to inogen.