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Definition of Cytolysin
1. Noun. A substance that partly or completely destroys animal cells.
Definition of Cytolysin
1. Noun. (biology) Any substance (especially an antibody) capable of breaking down the structure of a cell ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cytolysin
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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
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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