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Definition of Karyolysis
1. Noun. Disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies.
Definition of Karyolysis
1. Noun. (biology) The dissolution of the nucleus of a cell by the action of deoxyribonuclease ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Karyolysis
1. The destruction of a cells nucleus. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karyolysis
Literary usage of Karyolysis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"Presumably in karyolysis the first step consists in a splitting of the nucleoprotein
of the chromatin into nucleic acid and protein; ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1909)
"There is also a diffuse bluish tinge pervading the entire focus, due evidently
to karyolysis. The necrotic material is not confined to pre-existing corneal ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1901)
"... insists that karyolysis and basic granulation are distinct processes. ...
does not believe them the result of karyolysis of nuclei. ..."
4. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"There seems a decrease of nuclear fluid and a solution of the chromatin in it.
This is a preliminary step of karyolysis or absorption, the nucleus taking ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"The heart muscle cells on either side of the incision are undergoing either hyalin
degeneration or coagulation necrosis. karyolysis is marked in these cells ..."
6. Atlas and epitome of general pathologic histology by Hermann Dürck, Ludvig Hektoen (1904)
"... their nuclei by karyolysis and are in process of solution (Plate 24, Fig. 2).
In the <t'ntral layers a copious accumulation of fluid may take place, ..."
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