lysis

English

Etymology

From the Latin lysis, from the Ancient Greek λύσις (“a loosening”); compare -lysis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlaɪsɪs/

Noun

lysis (uncountable)

1. (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 157:

     The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis and crisis, one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.

2. (biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells

Related terms

• lyse
• -lysis

Translations

(medecine) gradual recovery from disease

• French: rémission (fr) f

(chemistry) destruction of cells

• French: lyse (fr) f

• Greek: λύση (el) (lýsi) f 

Anagrams

• sylis

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lusis).

Noun

lysis (genitive lysis); f, third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	lysis	lysēs
genitive	lysis	lysium
dative	lysī	lysibus
accusative	lysim lysem	lysīs lysēs
ablative	lysī lyse	lysibus
vocative	lysis	lysēs

Descendants

• English: lysis