[L. lysis, Gr. λύσις a loosening.]
1. Arch. ‘A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium of ancient temples, which surrounded or embraced the stylobate’ (Gwilt, Archit., 1842).
1847. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 280. 270. The lysis above the corona of a short pillar, of which there is mention made twice, was probably a small echinus.
2. Path. ‘An insensible or gradual solution or termination of a disease or disorder without apparent phenomena’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889). Opposed to CRISIS 1.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), I. 590. If it [the matter of the disease] be carried off at different times, it is a lysis, or resolution.
1877. Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 115. In short a combination of crisis and lysis is observed.
attrib. 1897. Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc., IX. 146. The lysis cases showed physical signs … later than the crisis cases.
