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Definition of Heterolytic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heterolytic
1. Pertaining to heterolysis or to the effect of a heterolysin. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterolytic
Literary usage of Heterolytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"14'15 However, a heterolytic mechanism for the present reaction cannot be ruled
out on this basis, since the different ratios might simply be due to changes ..."
2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"The heterolytic action differs in kind and in degree from the action of the
autolytic ferments of the normal liver. With slightly different experimental ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1908)
"If a dog is injected at the same time with heterolytic serum and also with the
serum of a dog which was injected with heterolytic serum some weeks before ..."
4. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"This proteolytic ferment action is both autolytic and heterolytic and is influenced
to a great extent by the checking action of the ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"The cancer tissue has no special heterolytic enzyme, or in other words, ...
It obtains its heterolytic peculiarity only secondarily through the immigration ..."
6. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"They conclude that the tumor ferments attack the normal tissues and exhibit a
heterolytic property. On this basis rests the claim that infiltrative growth ..."
7. Studies in Puncture-fluids: A Contribution to Clinical Pathology by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1908)
"The ferment is acting on a foreign albumen, and the process is therefore heterolytic.
The distinction becomes important from the fact that the spleen of ..."