Definition of Heterolysis

1. Noun. (chemistry) In organic chemistry, the splitting of a molecule to form a pair of oppositely charged ions ¹

2. Noun. (biology) The disruption of blood cells by a heterolysin, or by enzymes from another species ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heterolysis

1. [n -LYSES]

Medical Definition of Heterolysis

1. Dissolution or digestion of cells or protein components from one species by a lytic agent from a different species. Origin: hetero-+ G. Lysis, a loosening (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterolysis

heterologous antiserum
heterologous desensitization
heterologous graft
heterologous protein
heterologous serotype
heterologous stimulus
heterologous tumour
heterologously
heterologus
heterology
heterolyses
heterolysin
heterolysins
heterolysis (current term)
heterolysosome
heterolytic
heterolytically
heterolyze
heteromastigote
heteromecic
heteromer
heteromera
heteromeral
heteromeric
heteromeric cell
heteromeric peptide
heteromerous
heteromers

Literary usage of Heterolysis

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

1. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"heterolysis is accomplished particularly by the leucocytes, ... The heterolysis may be intracellular when the material to be digested has first been taken ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The racemization of optically active sulfonium and other "onium" salts should be a useful procedure for detecting bond heterolysis and return whenever this ..."

3. Studies in Puncture-fluids: A Contribution to Clinical Pathology by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1908)
"We may say, then, that the serum of pus contains an anti- ferment for autolysis, but not for heterolysis, while the pus-cells contain a ferment for ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"Some of the muscle fibers nearest the abscess are invaded by poly- morphonuclear leucocytes and are undergoing heterolysis. The contents of the abscess are ..."

5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"... at the same time an example of heterolysis, ie, of a solution or a destruction in an organ by enzymes not belonging therein but introduced from without. ..."

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