2. Adjective. of or relating to lysin ¹
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Definition of Lytic
1. pertaining to lysis [adj] - See also: lysis
Medical Definition of Lytic
1. 1. Pertaining to lysis or to a lysin. 2. Producing lysis. Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lytic
Literary usage of Lytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"Conceived in this way, the lytic principle would be regarded as the inheritance
of an ... In our own laboratory we have isolated a lytic principle by the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... the hydro- lytic dissociation of the salts. The Influence of Bile upon Blood
Pressure: SJ MELTZER and WILLIAM SALANT. The authors found that all degrees ..."
3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"However identical the phenomena of lysis are for these two bacteria, the lytic
principles are different. They differ in sensitiveness to heat and antigenic ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1922)
"Action of the lytic Agent on coli S and coli R. As described in a preceding
paper (1), two different types of organisms, coli S and coli R, ..."
5. Kirkes' Handbook of Physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes, Charles Wilson Greene (1922)
"The serum of one animal may be made to acquire lytic properties for the blood of
another. This adaptation is brought about in the ..."
6. Immune Sera; a Concise Exposition of the Main Facts and Theories of by Charles Frederick Bolduan (1911)
"... lytic power shows itself not only in vivo, so that an animal so treated is
able to cause red cells injected into it to rapidly dissolve and disappear, ..."
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