lysis
See also: -lysis
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Latin lysis, from the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”); compare -lysis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lysis
- (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.
- 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
- (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
(medicine) gradual recovery from disease
(chemistry) destruction of cells
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lysis f (genitive lysis or lyseōs or lysios); third declension
DeclensionEdit
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.
DescendantsEdit
- English: lysis
ReferencesEdit
- 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[1]
- 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 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