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Definition of Cytolysis
1. Noun. Pathological breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane.
Definition of Cytolysis
1. Noun. The pathological breakdown of a cell due to the bursting of the cell membrane caused by osmosis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cytolysis
1. [n -LYSES]
Medical Definition of Cytolysis
1. Cell lysis. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytolysis
Literary usage of Cytolysis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization by Jacques Loeb (1913)
"XVII MEMBRANE FORMATION AND cytolysis 1. In this chapter we shall show that all
haemolytic agents also cause membrane formation. ..."
2. Physical Chemistry of Vital Phenomena: For Students and Investigators in the by Jesse Francis McClendon (1917)
"Animal cells after destruction of the plasma membrane usually swell and disintegrate,
a process known as cytolysis, meaning the dissolution of the cell. ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"The impression one gained from the appearance was that of a solution or cytolysis
of the parenchyma. The process was as a rule more marked in the central ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"cytolysis OF AGEING EGGS. The consummation of the various deteriorating changes
in aging eggs is cytolysis and death. cytolysis of sea-urchin eggs under the ..."
5. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"... cytolysis, AND SENSITIZATION IN spite of the profound physiological alteration
of the animal body which is implied by the acquisition of immunity ..."
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