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Lysis   Listen
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Lysis  n.  (Med.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change. Note: It is usually contrasted with crisis, in which the improvement is sudden and marked; as, pneumonia ends by crisis, typhoid fever by lysis.





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"Lysis" Quotes from Famous Books



... beautiful element and am not conscious of any limits to my nature. The suggestions are thousandfold that I hear and see. The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul. But if I speak, I define, I confine and am less. When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak. They also are good. He likewise defers to them, loves them, whilst he speaks. Because a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson


Words linked to "Lysis" :   karyolysis, radiolysis, haemolysis, disintegration, self-digestion, bacteriolysis, necrolysis, biochemistry, osteolysis, thrombolysis, hemolysis, hematolysis, dissolution


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