American Heritage Dictionary
(1)
Century Dictionary
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet
Elsewhere on the web
The virus is then discharged from the cell at these exit sites, referred to as bacteriophages must break open, or lyse, the cell to exit.— CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria by inhibiting their protein synthesis, are more effective than a standard first-line treatment with the "beta-lactam" antibiotic ampicillin, which causes the bacteria to lyse, or burst.
In this scenario, you won't have enough weak and extraneous cells to require a cold or the flu to work its way through your body to identify and lyse them.— NaturalNews.com
A cardinal property of activated CD8 T cells during acute viral infections is their ability to lyse and eliminate virus infected cells.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Splenocytes and lung lymphocytes from mice infected by the i.n. route were therefore tested for their ability to lyse virus infected target cells in ex vivo CTL assays.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year
Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed
We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.
Recently looked upnetiquette · uninformed · interferometers · baneful · scattergun |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent PronunciationsDer dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich |