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Lysis vs Turgid - What's the difference?

lysis | turgid |

As a noun lysis

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

As an adjective turgid is

distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

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

    • Related terms

    * lyse * -lysis

    Anagrams

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    turgid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
    • I have a turgid limb.
  • (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

    • Synonyms

    * (distended beyond the natural state) bloated, distended, inflated, swelled, swollen, tumid * (tediously pompous) bombastic, grandiose, pompous

    Related terms

    * turgescent * turgidity * turgidness * turgor * turgidigitation * turgerific * turgestion * turgidification