lyso-, lyo-, ly-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz-

1. An enzyme of the hydrolase class that catalyzes the hydrolysis of specific glycosidic linkages in peptidoglycans and in chitin. The enzyme occurs in saliva, tears, egg white, and many animal fluids and catalyzes the breakdown of some bacterial cell walls.
2. An enzyme occurring naturally in egg white, human tears, saliva, and other body fluids, capable of destroying the cell walls of certain bacteria and thereby acting as a mild antiseptic.
3. An enzyme that is destructive of bacteria and functions as an antiseptic, found in tears, leukocytes, mucus, egg albumin, and in certain plants.

1. Chemical analysis which is not on a small or minute scale.
2. Qualitative or quantitative analysis dealing with quantities usually in the amount of grams.

A component of a nation's economic accounts that represents inputs of materials, their accumulation, and their outflow to the natural environment and other economies.

Psychotherapeutic treatment under light anesthesia, originally used in acute combat cases during World War II; also used in the treatment of childhood trauma.

In meteorology, an analysis of the types and amount of clouds and precipitation on a synoptic chart in which cloud systems are identified as entities in relation to the pressure pattern and fronts.

The analysis of dreams as an important part of psychoanalytic treatment.