English

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
3. (biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules

Related terms

• lyse
• -lysis

Translations

Anagrams

• sylis

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek λύσις ‎(lúsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʏ.sɪs]

Noun

lysis f ‎(genitive lysis); third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Descendants

• English: lysis

References

• lysis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lysis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• lysis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• lysis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lysis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• lysis in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly