different between lysis vs homogenization

English

Etymology

From Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek ????? (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?s?s/

Noun

lysis

1. (medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 157:

     The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis and crisis, one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.

2. (biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells
3. (biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules
4. (architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.

Related terms

• lyse
• -lysis

Translations

Anagrams

• Lissy, sylis

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????? (lúsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ly.sis/, [?l?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?li.sis/, [?li?s?is]

Noun

lysis f (genitive lysis or lyse?s or lysios); third declension

1. loosening
2. rupture (breaking away)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• English: lysis

References

• lysis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lysis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• lysis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lysis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• lysis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Alternative forms

• homogenisation

Etymology

homogenize +? -ation

Noun

homogenization (countable and uncountable, plural homogenizations)

1. the act of making something homogenous, or the same throughout; or the tendency of something to become homogenous

   Cream does not separate from milk that has undergone a homogenization process.

Related terms

• homogenize
• homogenized

Translations