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HEMOLYSIS
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Irregular inflected form: hemolyses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin
Synonyms:
haematolysis; haemolysis; hematolysis; hemolysis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("hemolysis" is a kind of...):
lysis ((biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria)
Derivation:
hemolytic (relating to or involving or causing hemolysis)
Context examples:
This suppresses excessive complement activity and may result in an inhibition of ACP-mediated hemolysis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) red blood cells (RBCs) as well as preventing ACP-induced tissue damage.
(CR2-fH Fusion Protein TT30, NCI Thesaurus)
A disease characterized by compensated hemolysis with a normal hemoglobin level or a mild to moderate anemia.
(Hemoglobin C Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The complement system also plays a role in antibody-dependent cytolysis, anaphylaxis, phagocytosis, opsonization, chemotaxis, and hemolysis.
(Complement Degradation Process, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is nonmotile, spore forming, and catalase positive, hydrolyzes casein, starch and gelatin, reduces nitrate, is penicillin susceptible but cephalosporin resistant, gamma phage sensitive, has absent or delayed hemolysis and the capsule can be visualized using M'Faydean's stain.
(Bacillus anthracis, NCI Thesaurus)
A new way to detect anaemia that relies on optical light absorbance to measure haemoglobin levels using whole blood in a microfluidic device is claimed by researchers to be a vast improvement over existing tests that require hemolysis (rupturing) of blood samples and lab facilities.
(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)
