Definitions
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- intransitive & transitive verb To undergo or cause to undergo lysis.
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- verb biology To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce
lysis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In an important difference, bacteria killed this way did not lyse, or break apart, as they did under the influence of membrane-disrupting drugs.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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In an important difference, bacteria killed this way did not lyse, or break apart, as they did under the influence of membrane-disrupting drugs.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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In an important difference, bacteria killed this way did not lyse, or break apart, as they did under the influence of membrane-disrupting drugs.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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She has a lys on her chest and lyse around the besagues small round 'shields' laced to the mail at the shoulder to defend the armpit. contrary to modern belief armor of the time was about 50 lbs or so.
Archive 2008-02-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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She has a lys on her chest and lyse around the besagues small round 'shields' laced to the mail at the shoulder to defend the armpit. contrary to modern belief armor of the time was about 50 lbs or so.
The Maids Armor de Brantigny........................ 2008
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However, when viruses lyse bacteria, the nutrients are released in the water column within the organic compounds which were present in the cell.
Marine viruses 2007
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These toxins can remain inside algal cells (intracellular toxins), or they may be released into the surrounding water (extracellular toxins) during active algal growth or when algal cells lyse.
Inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems~ causes and consequences 2007
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In fact, one of the at first sight rather frustrating observation was that lysates of lambda-gal, which indeed could still cause the infected host cell to lyse as does wild type phage lambda, did not contain any structural components of lambda (phage particles, heads or tails) discernible in the electron microscope.
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But Elric's head contained no thoughts, only emo - tion flooded him-emotion he did not wish to ana - lyse.
The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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But Elric's head contained no thoughts, only emo - tion flooded him-emotion he did not wish to ana - lyse.
The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
ruzuzu commented on the word lyse
Here's an example sentence from the Wiktionary definition of colicin: "A protein, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kills but does not lyse other strains."
April 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word lyse
Back-formation from lysis, from ancient Greek "loosening", "dissolving".
April 5, 2011