cytolysis has definitions from the fields of biochemistry,medicine,pathology
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[ noun ] (medicine,pathology,biochemistry) pathological breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

Used in print

(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

Microscopically , the mucosa of the stomach showed extensive cytolysis and contained large_numbers of Gram-negative bacterial rods .

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disease lysis

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[ noun ] (biochemistry) breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

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lysis

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