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Lysis vs Lyses - What's the difference?

lysis | lyses |

As a noun lysis

is (medicine|pathology) a gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis ).

As a verb lyses is

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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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    * lyse * -lysis

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    lyses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lyse)

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    lyse

    English

    Verb

    (lys)
  • (biology) To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.
  • (biochemistry) To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.

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    * lysis * -lysis

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