lyso-, lyo-, ly-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz-
(Greek: lyein [LYOO ayn], "to loosen"; loosening, dissolving, dissolution)
analysis
analyst
analyst (AN uh list)
Someone with specialist knowledge or skill who studies or examines something by separating it into its constituent elements and gives an assessment, description, or explanation of it; a judge, an evaluator: "In business, a person must be a good analyst of his or her commercial possibilities." "The neurotic patient was sent to a psychoanlyst."
analyst, annalist
analyst (AN uh list)
Someone with specialized knowledge or skill who studies or examines something by separating it into its constituent elements and gives an assessment, description, or explanation of it: "In business, a person must be a good analyst of his or her commercial possibilities."
annalist (AN uh list)
1. Someone who writes records of events arranged chronologically by each year or by successive years; a chronicler: "The annalist wrote a series of chronicles about the events that took place during the existence of the club."
2. A writer, or historian, who compiles the records and reports of an organization or a learned field in chronological order: "The historical annalist compiled a book about the city over the last 100 years."
analytic
analyze
angiolysis
Retrogression or obliteration of blood vessels, such as occurs during embryonic development.
autoanalysis
1. Self-analysis as in psychoanalysis.
2. In chemistry, analysis with an autoanalyzer.
autolysis, autodigestion
1. Self-acting disintegration of tissue.
2. The destruction of cells of the body by the action of their own enzymes.
3, Return of a substance to solution, as of phosphate removed from seawater by plankton and returned when these organisms die and decay.
autolytic
That which breaks down plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes within the tissue that is affected.
biolysis
1. Chemical decomposition of organic matter brought about by bacteria, etc.
2. Disintegration of organic matter through the chemical action of living organisms; such as, bacteria.
3. Sewage decomposition by tiny organisms.
biolytic
1. Life destroying or destructive to life.
2. Related to biolysis or capable of destroying life.
carcinolysin
carcinolysis
carcinolytic
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