lyse
Verb

lyse (lyses, present participle lysing; past and past participle lysed)

  1. (biology) To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.
  2. (biochemistry) To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.
Related terms


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary