lysis

From the Latin lysis, from the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”); compare -lysis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪsɪs/

lysis

1. (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.

2. (biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells
3. (biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules
4. (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.

• lyse
• -lysis

• Lissy, sylis

From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʏ.sɪs]

lysis f (genitive lysis); third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• English: lysis

• 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
• 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