Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saccharine substance (C6H12O6 + 2H2O) found in the muscular substance of the heart and in the lungs, kidneys, brain, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) Same as
inositol .
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- noun biochemistry A
carbohydrate found inplants andanimals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most important application of inosite-free bouillon is its use in the preparation of sugar bouillons, whether glucose, maltose, lactose, or saccharose, of exact percentage composition.
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Prepare inosite-free bouillon cultivation, say 200 or 300 c.c., in a flask as before.
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The medium should be prepared from inosite-free bouillon (_vide_ page 183).
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_ -- The symptoms are ardent thirst and profuse secretion of a pale urine of a high density (1.060 and upward), rapid loss of condition, scurfy, unthrifty skin, costiveness or irregularity of the bowels, indigestion, and the presence, in the urine, of a sweet principle -- grape sugar or inosite, or both.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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