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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
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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