autolysis of animal or plant tissue; cellular autophagy; (also) degradation of a macromolecule by endogenous cellular enzymes.

Contraction of the cytoplasm of a plant cell with separation of the plasma membrane from the cell wall, due to the osmotic withdrawal of liquid into…

the destruction or breaking up of cells, esp. by damage to the cell membrane.

Lysis of phagocytes. Now rare or disused.

The destruction of cells or tissues by enzymes present within them, occurring after death or as part of a pathological process.

(a) The dissolution of blood cells by a heterolysin. (b) The dissolution of cells of one kind by an enzyme of cells of another kind.

Biology. The disintegration or dissolution of cells or cell organelles; esp. the dissolution of bacterial cells brought about by bacteriophage.

Destruction of trypanosomes.

the solution and disintegration of the chromatin of cell nuclei.

The absorption or destruction of a tumour.

the state or quality of being plasmolysable.

Biology. The initiation of the lytic cycle in a bacterium carrying a prophage; the process of inducing a bacterium that contains a prophage.

The process by which a bacterium acquires a phage which becomes stably integrated into its genome; the establishment of the lysogenic state.