autolysev.

1903 Science 3 July 15/1 An acute lobar pneumonia in which the inflammatory exudate..failing to autolyze perfectly cannot absorb, and hence undergoes organisation.

1906 Biochem. Jrnl. 1 154 When the liver of a well-fed dog was autolysed in the presence of acid, the mixture at the end of 24 hours was still quite turbid with glycogen.

1927 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 41 472 It is apparent that an aqueous extract of leukocytes autolyzes very little.

1967 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Mar. 747/2 The liver autolyses so rapidly.

1996 M. Begon et al. Ecology (ed. 3) xi. 404 Other changes may occur at the same time: enzymes in the dead tissue may start to autolyse it.

2004 R. Dagan et al. in R. D. Feigin et al. Textbk. Pediatric Infectious Dis. (ed. 5) I. cx. 1208/2 Opaque colonies are less likely to autolyse.

1901 Zentrabl. f. Bakteriol., Parasitenkunde u. Infektionskrankheiten Erste Abteilung 30 759 This corresponds with the recent results..as regards the bactericidal action of fresh autolysed organs.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Oct. 695/3 Injecting into animals varying quantities of a saline extract of autolysed homologous muscle.

2008 Esquire Sept. 191/1 According to the box, what also oozes out is tomato paste, soy-sauce powder, autolyzed yeast extract, and water.

1906 Jrnl. Hygiene 6 116 Instead of leaving the bottles containing the autolysing bacteria at rest, they were repeatedly shaken.

1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vi. 173 The autolysing agencies which operate at metamorphosis.

1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. iv. 72 It was, however, not possible to show that dead tissue fragments, autolysing tissue, and tryptic or peptic digests had any attractive power.