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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, an amorphous compound, C10H13O8N4P, obtained from the flesh of certain animals. Some of its salts are crystalline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite.

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Examples

  • Also in the mid-fifties the pioneering work of Greenberg (31) and of Buchanan (32,33) revealed the pathways of the biosynthesis of purines and the importance of hypoxanthine ribonucleotide (inosinic acid, IMP) as the first purine nucleotide formed in this biosynthetic pathway.

    Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy 1988

  • The composition of inosinic and guanylic acids is still simpler.

    Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • We do not know whether inosinic and guanylic acids are of the same importance to the life of the cell as the complicated nucleic acids; at present in particular it has not been established if the site of the two last-named acids is to be sought in the chromatin of the cell nucleus.

    Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • The red color of flesh is due to a rather large proportion of blood, which it contains in minute vessels; and the slight acidity of its juice is owing to the presence of _inosinic_ acid, and probably of several other acids.

    The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

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