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lysis - What does it mean?

Definition of 'lysis'

English

Noun

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  • (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.
  • (biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells
  • (biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules
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