Definition of Cytolytic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to cytolysis, the dissolution or destruction of a cell.

Partainyms: Cytolysis
Derivative terms: Cytolysis

Definition of Cytolytic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to cytolysis ¹

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Definition of Cytolytic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cytolytic

1. Pertaining to cytolysis; possessing a solvent or destructive action on cells. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytolytic

cytologic smear
cytological
cytologically
cytologies
cytologist
cytologists
cytology
cytology brush
cytolymph
cytolyses
cytolysin
cytolysins
cytolysis
cytolysosome
cytolytic (current term)
cytolyze
cytoma
cytomatrix
cytomegalic
cytomegalic cells
cytomegalic inclusion disease
cytomegalovirus disease
cytomegalovirus infections
cytomegalovirus polyradiculopathy
cytomegalovirus retinitis
cytomegaloviruses
cytomegaly
cytomembrane

Literary usage of Cytolytic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Müller's Serodiagnostic Methods: Authorized Translation from the Third by Paul Theodor Müller (1913)
"The higher the bactericidal titre runs above that usually found in normal sera, the more probable it is that the case is one of typhoid infection. cytolytic ..."

2. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"There remains, however, another class of cytolytic agent which has yet to be considered in ... The Blood of the mammalia contains cytolytic substances which ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"neither cytolytic nor toxic activity, nor did it contain any trace of oxalic acid or oxalates to which the toxic action of ..."

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