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Lysis vs Homogenization - What's the difference?

lysis | homogenization |

As nouns the difference between lysis and homogenization

is that lysis is a gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis) while homogenization is the act of making something homogenous, or the same throughout; or the tendency of something to be come homogenous.

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

    • Related terms

    * lyse * -lysis

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    homogenization

    English

    (wikipedia homogenization)

    Alternative forms

    * homogenisation

    Noun

    (-)
  • the act of making something homogenous, or the same throughout; or the tendency of something to be come homogenous
    • Cream does not separate from milk that has undergone a homogenization process.

    Related terms

    * homogenize * homogenized