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S vs Lysis - What's the difference?

s | lysis |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun lysis is

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

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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

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