Definition of Histolysis

1. n. The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Definition of Histolysis

1. Noun. breakdown of bodily tissues ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Histolysis

1. [n -LYSES]

Medical Definition of Histolysis

1. The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. "istos tissue + to loosen, dissolve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Histolysis

histohaematins
histoid
histoid leprosy
histoid neoplasm
histoid tumour
histoincompatibility
histologic
histologic accommodation
histological
histologically
histologies
histologist
histologists
histology
histolyses
histolysis (current term)
histolytic
histolyze
histoma
histometaplastic
histomoniasis
histomorphological
histomorphology
histomorphometric
histomorphometry
histomycosis
histone
histone-lysine n-methyltransferase
histone bases
histone deacetylase

Literary usage of Histolysis

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

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"histolysis. Our observations on the state of the tissues of the ... First, there will be the breaking down of the tissues, or histolysis, as it is termed ..."

2. A Text-book of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1898)
"The pancreas has a preventive action on the sugar production of the liver, as also on the histolysis. This is caused by means of uu unknown product of the ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The changes have been found to be made up of two sets of processes histolysis, by which the whole or part of a structure disappears: and ..."

4. General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life by Max Verworn (1899)
"The processes of histolysis go on in a wholly analogous manner in most other cases, eg, ... rapidly, the histolysis is performed chiefly by the leucocytes, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This connexion feeler; '.of eye ..„_ _. rIo, brain. t histolysis and ... Hence the opinion arose that histolysis is a process of phagocytosis. ..."

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