Plasmolysis vs Lysis - What's the difference?
plasmolysis | lysis |
(biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss
(medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis ).
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 157:
(biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells
(biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules
As nouns the difference between plasmolysis and lysis
is that plasmolysis is the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss while lysis is a gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis).plasmolysis
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(wikipedia plasmolysis)Noun
(plasmolyses)lysis
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(-)- 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.