Lysis Definition

līsĭs
lyses
noun
The process of cell destruction through the action of specific lysins.
Webster's New World
The gradual ending of disease symptoms.
Webster's New World
suffix
Decomposition; dissolving; disintegration.
Hydrolysis.
American Heritage
affix
A loosening, dissolution, dissolving, destruction.
Catalysis, electrolysis.
Webster's New World

Origin of Lysis

  • New Latin from Latin a loosening from Greek lusis from lūein to loosen leu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Latin lysis, from the Ancient Greek λύσις (lusis, “a loosening"); compare -lysis.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin from Greek lusis a loosening lysis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lysis Sentence Examples

  • During normal wound healing, from three days to three weeks, a period of proliferation occurs during which collagen deposition exceeds collagen deposition exceeds collagen lysis.

  • We would like to better understand how the dense VSG coat protects the trypanosome from complement mediated lysis.

  • The depletion is unaffected by cobra venom factor treatment and thus presumably does not depend on complement lysis (Isaacs et al 1992 ).

  • These are activated in the presence of pathogens and cause cell lysis.

  • Virus infection induced late cell lysis in asthmatic cells but not in normal cells.

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Words Starting With

LLYLYS

Words Ending With

SISSIS

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lysis

Words Starting With L and Ending With S

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