单词 | lytic |
释义 | lyticadj. 1. Medicine. Of, pertaining to, or causing a lysis (sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [adjective] > causing gradual termination of disease lytic1889 1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Lytic, of, or belonging to, a loosing or dissolving. 1907 Practitioner Apr. 500 It boots little whether that increase in heat [during fever] is due to an excessive production, as the ‘genetic’ protagonists proclaim, or an inadequate dissipation, as their ‘lytic’ opponents contend. 1962 Lancet 26 May 1123/2 Ice placed inside the oxygen tent and cold sponging are remarkably efficient in lowering the temperature of these infants to 86–88°F (31°C)... In our experience ‘lytic’ agents are not required. 2. Bacteriology. Pertaining to or causing lysis (sense 3); lytic cycle, the sequence of events that takes place from the infection of a bacterium by a virulent phage to lysis of the bacterium and the release of progeny phage. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > lysis > [adjective] plasmolysed1883 plasmolysing1883 plasmolytic1885 cytolytic1896 plasmolysable1896 Pfeiffer1897 lipolytic1898 autolytic1900 lytic1902 trypanolytic1907 heterolytic1909 lysed1922 lysing1924 oncolytic1928 phosphorolytic1937 lysogenized1953 1902 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 17 Mar. 281 Only when the lytic serum is very fresh will solution be effected. 1922 Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Path. 3 259 The lytic substance, lysozyme, is very stable. 1925 C. H. Browning Bacteriol. ix. 214 He concluded that the agent causing this solution or lytic action was a living virus. 1946 Nature 23 Nov. 745/1 The lytic effect of certain myxobacteria upon the true bacteria (eubacteria) has been known for some years. 1963 Biol. Abstr. 41 1198/2 Studies on control of enzyme induction and initiation of lytic cycle in a lysogenic bacterium. 1968 R. Rieger et al. Gloss. Genetics & Cytogenetics 34 The introduction by infection of the genetic material of virulent phages into a susceptible host results invariably in the death and dissolution of the cell with the release of (100–10000) new phages (‘lytic cycle’). 1972 Nature 24 Mar. 144/3 It is much more likely that the tails kill sensitive cells either by injecting lytic enzymes or by acting at the cell surface. Draft additions June 2019 lytic cocktail n. Pharmacology (now chiefly historical) a combination of drugs (typically the sedative chlorpromazine, the opioid pethidine, and the antihistamine promethazine) used originally as an adjunct in general anaesthesia and later mainly for sedation and for the management of conditions such as eclamptic seizures and chronic pain. [After French cocktail lytique (H. Laborit & P. Huguenard 1951, in Presse médicale 13 Oct. 1329/1).] ΚΠ 1952 Internat. Abstr. Surg. 94 196/2 The designation ‘lytic cocktail’ has been proposed for the method. 1988 Hastings Center Rep. 18 22/2 In the case of terminally ill cancer patients, it is not uncommon in our country [sc. Uruguay] for the physician ultimately to resort to a ‘lytic cocktail’ comprised of an opiate, a sedative, and an analgesic administered in a constant intravenous drip. 2002 Internat. Jrnl. Gynecol. & Obstetr. 76 7/1 They [sc. data] do confirm magnesium sulfate as the drug of choice for women with eclampsia, and are sufficient to suggest that lytic cocktail be withdrawn from clinical practice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -lyticcomb. form < adj.1889 see also |
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