Definition of Cytolysin

1. Noun. A substance that partly or completely destroys animal cells.

Generic synonyms: Lysin

Definition of Cytolysin

1. Noun. (biology) Any substance (especially an antibody) capable of breaking down the structure of a cell ¹

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Definition of Cytolysin

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cytolysin

1. A substance i.e., an antibody that effects partial or complete destruction of an animal cell; may require complement. See: perforin. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytolysin

cytolipin
cytologic
cytologic examination
cytologic screening
cytologic smear
cytological
cytologically
cytologies
cytologist
cytologists
cytology
cytology brush
cytolymph
cytolyses
cytolysin (current term)
cytolysins
cytolysis
cytolysosome
cytolytic
cytolyze
cytoma
cytomatrix
cytomegalic
cytomegalic cells
cytomegalic inclusion disease
cytomegalovirus disease
cytomegalovirus infections
cytomegalovirus polyradiculopathy

Literary usage of Cytolysin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"It will be remembered that the general name "cytolysin. ... This is probably a better term than cytolysin; but it is to be remembered that, so far as is now ..."

2. Elementary Biology: An Introduction to the Science of Life by Benjamin Charles Gruenberg (1919)
"The specific cytolysin is formed by the action of the live cells. Later, when live typhoid germs get into the body, they are dissolved by the cytolysin ..."

3. Immunity and Specific Therapy by Walter d'Este Emery (1909)
"A cytolysin acting on the cells of the placenta. Thermolabile. Easily destroyed by heat. In general thermolabile substances are destroyed, completely or ..."

4. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1911)
"2. The circulating nutritive fluid of certain invertebrates. Hemolysin, hem-ol'-Ìs-Ìn. A cytolysin capable of destroying red blood-cells. See cytolysin, and ..."

5. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"... or lysin, or cytolysin; the complement and the intermediary body make up the cytolysin. It has been demonstrated that the bacteriolytic cholera-serum ..."

6. Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Anatomy (1903)
"cytolysin. An antibody which causes dissolution of cells, particularly invading ... An antibody which injures cells, not dissolving them (see cytolysin). ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... and we look upon it as a cytolysin for endothelial cells of blood vessels, the injury and destruction of which is the direct cause of the escape of ..."

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