lysis
See also: -lysis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lysis
- (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis).
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 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.
- (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
(medicine) gradual recovery from disease
(chemistry) destruction of cells
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.sis/, [ˈliːs̬is]
Noun edit
lysis f (genitive lysis or lyseōs or lysios); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lysis | lysēs lyseis |
Genitive | lysis lyseōs lysios |
lysium |
Dative | lysī | lysibus |
Accusative | lysim lysin lysem1 |
lysēs lysīs |
Ablative | lysī lyse1 |
lysibus |
Vocative | lysis lysi |
lysēs lyseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants edit
- English: lysis
References edit
- “lysis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lysis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “lysis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lysis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “lysis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly