Medical Definition of Hydrolytic cleavage
1.
The splitting of a compound into fragments by the addition of water, the hydroxyl group being incorporated in one fragment and the hydrogen atom in the other.
Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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