1925 C. H. Browning Bacteriol. vi. 123 The suspension soon becomes transparent, i.e. it is laked or lysed.

1926 Encycl. Brit. I. 302/1 Its inability to lyse dead bacteria.

1927 Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Path. 8 121 It [sc. an active phage] lysed certain laboratory strains of coliform bacilli.

1947 New Biol. 2 75 Fleming made the observation that the small bacterial colonies close to the mould colony were being ‘lysed’ (dissolved).

1967 New Scientist 13 July 97/1 It will burst open or lyse the offending bacteria.

1970 Nature 16 May 594/1 They lysed algal cells by treatment with penicillin.

1933 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 52 272 The tendency of placental blood to lyse was found to be overcome by this use of hypertonic salt solution.

1971 Nature 22 Jan. 272/2 Many bacteria lyse when growth of the cultures ceases.

1971 Nature 26 Nov. 231/2 When leaves of these two species were slowly dried.., chloroplast lamellae and mitochondrial cristae often disintegrated or lysed while tonoplasts..usually remained intact.

1922 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 290/1 The filtrate contains the bacteriophagic principle as active as the lysed non-filtered culture.

1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics I. i. 36 The lysates were known as Sentocym preparations, with a prefix to indicate the type of lysed organism which they contained.

1924 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 9 401 It is established that, though non-lysing, they carry some lytic agent.

1929 Jrnl. Pathol. & Bacteriol. 32 41 The type of resistant colony is related to these characteristics of the lysing phage.

1934 Biol. Rev. IX. 338 Phage particles just liberated from a lysing bacterium are more active.