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Definition of Lysis

1. Noun. Recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside.

2. Noun. (biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria.

Definition of Lysis

1. n. The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

Definition of Lysis

1. Noun. (medicine pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to '''crisis'''). ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lysis

1. the disintegration of cells by lysins [n LYSES]

Medical Definition of Lysis

1. Rupture of cell membranes and loss of cytoplasm. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lysis

lysine epsilon-dehydrogenase lysine intolerance lysine monooxygenase lysine racemase lysinemia lysines lysing lysinium lysinoalanine lysinogen

lysinogenic lysins lysinuria lysinuric lysinuric protein intolerance lysis (current term) lyso- lysoamidase lysobactin lysobactins

lysocephalin lysocline lysoclines lysogen lysogenesis lysogenic lysogenic bacteria lysogenic bacterium lysogenic conversion lysogenic cycle

Literary usage of Lysis

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

1. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"But when I saw him agitated and distressed hy what had been said, I called to mind that, though standing close by, he wished not to be seen by lysis. ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1866)
"lysis, too modest at first to approach, is emboldened to sit down by seeing ... lysis. I do not think him happy at all. lysis. Not at all, by Zeus, ..."

3. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1902)
"That is true, he said. Z*hen what can be the reason, lysis, I said, why they allow - >j to do the one and not the other ? ..."

4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"(spontaneous lysis) as compared with the other strains. Since all the bacterial strains employed were found to possess LTA (Table I), it is postulated that ..."

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