LYSIS
\lˈa͡ɪsiz], \lˈaɪsiz], \l_ˈaɪ_s_i_z]\
Definitions of LYSIS
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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1. The gradual subsidence of the symptoms of an acute disease; a form of the curative process, distinguished from crisis. 2. The destruction of blood-cells, bacteria, etc., by a specific lysin; according to the form of cell destroyed the process is called hemolysis, nephrolysis, bacteriolysis, etc.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Solution. A common suffix; also, a name given to solutions or terminations of disease, which are operated insensibly; that is, gradually and without critical symptoms.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
