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Lysis  n.  (Med.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change. Note: It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.






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"Lysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... the circulation for several hours or days, the patient will recover from the disease, for in most acute diseases the patient has a good chance of recovery if his circulation will only hold out until the crisis has occurred or until the disease is ready to end by lysis. Therefore anything during the disease that tends to sustain, nourish, quiet and guard the heart means so much more chance of recovery, whatever else may or may not be done ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.

... [108] Lysis, author of Demain, and many other remarkable studies of economic problems, and editor of Le Democratie Nouvelle, May ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon



Words linked to "Lysis" :   recuperation, biochemistry, haemolysis, hematolysis, cytolysis, necrolysis, bacteriolysis, disintegration, convalescence, recovery, dissolution, autolysis, hemolysis, self-digestion



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