histolysisn.
/hɪˈstɒlᵻsɪs/, U.S. /hɪˈstɑləsəs/ Biology.
The degeneration or dissolution of tissue, (in later use) esp. as a process in invertebrate metamorphosis. Also figurative.
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depravation1661
cretification1849
histolysis1853
steatosis1860
cretifaction1873
fibrosis1873
hyalinosis1876
fibrosing1879
sarcomatosis1890
tyrosis1896
hyaline degeneration1897
amyloidosis1900
pseudoxanthoma1900
blastophthoria1908
hyalinization1919
1853 R. D. Lyons in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1850–3 5 449 I am able to furnish another and valuable class of proofs from the results of my researches in Histolysis.
1896 Liverpool Mercury 22 Sept. 5/9 Then came the marvellous transformation scene during which, by a process of histolysis, almost all the invertebrate characteristics were destroyed or changed.
1912 Times 29 Feb. 4/5 The present social order was too unstable to last much longer, and he must be callous who greatly desired that it should. What would emerge from the approaching histolysis no one could predict.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses v. 131 When this breaking down (histolysis) and rebuilding (histogenesis) are finished there emerges the moth, now with all its parts complete and with a beautiful covering of scales.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) I. xix. 373 The larval tissue is completely destroyed, a process known as histolysis.
2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 11306/2 Catabolic clusters probably serve histolysis of larval tissues at the onset of metamorphosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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