Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of nine isomeric alcohols, C6H12O6·2H2O, especially one found in plant and animal tissue and classified as a member of the vitamin B complex.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry any of several isomeric cyclic polyhydric alcohols, C6H12O6, found in both plant and animal tissue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physiol. Chem.) A white crystalline substance (C6H12O6) with a sweet taste, widely distributed in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, and also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Although isomeric with dextrose, it has no carbonyl (aldehyde or ketone) group, and is therefore not a carbohydrate, but a derivative of cyclohexane. Called also
inosite ,cyclohexitol ,cyclohexanehexol ,hexahydroxycyclohexane andphaseomannite . There are nine possible steroisomers, not all of which are found naturally. The predominate natural form is cis-1,2,3,5-trans-4,6-cyclohexanehexol, also calledmyo-inositol . The naturally occurring phytic acid in plants is the hexaphosphate of inositol, from which inositol may be manufactured; phytin is the calcium-magnesium salt of phytic acid. It is also a component of phosphatidylinositol.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek stem of ἴς (is, in-, "sinew, fiber") +-ose ("indicating a carbohydrate") + -ite ("ester") + -ol (“an alcohol”) (Wiktionary)
- Greek īs, īn-, sinew; see wei- in Indo-European roots + -os(e)2 + -it(e)2 + -ol1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Professor Shamsuddin had done a lot of research into a protein called inositol, which is found on the inner wall of rice grains.”
“In particular, they thrive on a sugar called inositol which is abundant in the human brain and spinal cord.”
“# Eliminates the red face with a special form of vitamin B-3 known as inositol hexaniacinate.”
“It is also known as niacin (nicotinic acid) and has two other forms, niacinamide (nicotinamide) and inositol hexanicotinate.”
“In addition, be aware that lithium carbonate, used for treating bipolar illness, depletes folic acid (take 800 mcg) and inositol (take 500 mg bid).”
“If the main type of anxiety is panic, I may recommend inositol.”
“There has been a report of inositol worsening bipolar disorder, and I do not recommend it if you have that condition.”
“Researchers found inositol to be just as effective as a popular antidepressant for panic disorder, and participants tolerated it well even at massive doses up to 18 grams per day.30”
“You can tone down the effects of norepinephrine by taking the amino acid L-theanine, the antioxidant NAC, inositol, and the omega-3 fatty acids.”
“Other helpful brain relaxants that boost GABA include theanine from green tea, inositol a B vitamin, other B vitamins such as B3, B6, and B12, and magnesium.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inositol’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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