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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The pathological breakdown of a cell due to the bursting of the cell membrane caused by osmosis uncountable, usually
2. 2
   pathological breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane wordnet

Etymology

From cyto- + -lysis.

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