lysis

Other forms of lysis

plural

lyses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lysis

What does lysis mean?

lysis means "recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lysis?

lysis has 2 syllables: ly-sis. The stress falls on "ly". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪsɪs/.

Is lysis a common word?

lysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.