lysis

From Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪsɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪsɪs

lysis

1. (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎, London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 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.
4. (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.

• euglobulin lysis time
• euglobulin clot lysis time
• lyterian

• lyse
• -lysis

• Lissy, sylis

From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.sis/, [ˈliːs̬is]

lysis f (genitive lysis or lyseōs or lysios); third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• English: lysis

• “lysis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman 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