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Lysis vs Null - What's the difference?

lysis | null |

As nouns the difference between lysis and null

is that lysis is (medicine|pathology) a gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis ) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

lysis

English

Noun

(-)
  • (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
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----