Inosite
(in'ō-sīt), in chemistry, Co- H12O62H2O, a non-fermentable substance, isomeric with glucose discovered by Scherer in the muscular substance of the heart of the ox. It has since been found to exist in the lungs, kidneys, liver, spleen, and brain, and in the urine during some diseases of the kidney. It is obtained from the mother liquor of the creatine crystals, by acidulating with sulphuric acid, and then gradually adding alcohol till a turbidity begins to appear. Inosite is also found in many plants, especially in green beans, the shells of peas, in the leaves of the vine, in asparagus, etc.
IN PARTIBUS, the usual contracted form of the Latin phrase, in partibus infidelium = in countries belonging to unbelievers. Bishop in partibus, a bishop consecrated to a see formerly formerly existing, but which, owing chiefly to the rise of Mohammedanism, has long been lost to the Roman Church. Bishops in partibus date from the Reformation. Catholic affairs in England were managed by Vicars-Apostolic, having titular sees in partibus, from 1623 to the erection of the hierarchy in 1850. Besides Vicars- Apostolic, in a non-Catholic country, the Vicars of Cardinal-bishops, Suffraganbishops, and Papal Nuncios usually have their sees in partibus infidelium.