lysis

See also: -lysis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪsɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪsɪs

Noun

lysis

1. (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
2. (biochemistry)
   1. The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules.
   2. The disintegration or destruction of cells.
3. (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease.

   Antonym: crisis

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 183:

     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.

Derived terms

• euglobulin lysis time
• euglobulin clot lysis time
• lyterian

Related terms

• lyse
• -lysis

Translations

(medicine) gradual recovery from disease

• Catalan: lisi f
• French: rémission (fr) f
• German: Lysis f, Lysen pl
• Portuguese: lise f
• Russian: ли́зис (ru) m (lízis)

(chemistry) destruction of cells

• Arabic: اِنْحِلَال m (inḥilāl)
• Catalan: lisi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溶解 (zh) (róngjiě), 裂解 (zh) (lièjiě)

• Czech: lýza f, lyze f
• Esperanto: lizo (eo)
• French: lyse (fr) f
• German: Lyse f
• Greek: λύση (el) f (lýsi)
• Portuguese: lise f
• Russian: ли́зис (ru) m (lízis)
• Spanish: lisis f

Anagrams

• Lissy, sylis

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈly.sis/, [ˈlʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.sis/, [ˈliːs̬is]

Noun

lysis f (genitive lysis or lyseōs or lysios); third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Declension

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

• English: lysis

References

• “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 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