lyso-, lyo-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz-

An enzyme of the hydrolase class that catalyzes the hydrolysis of specific glycosidic linkages in peptidoglycans and in chitin: The lysozyme occurs in saliva, tears, egg white, and many animal fluids and catalyzes the breakdown of some bacterial cell walls.

The lysozymes exist naturally in egg white, human tears, saliva, and other body fluids, and it is capable of destroying the cell walls of certain bacteria and thereby acts as a mild antiseptic.

1. Chemical analysis which is not on a small or minute scale.
2. Qualitative or quantitative analysis dealing with quantities usually in the amount of grams.

A component of a nation's economic accounts that represents inputs of materials, their accumulation, and their outflow to the natural environment and other economies.

Psychotherapeutic treatment under light anesthesia, originally used in acute combat cases during World War II; also used in the treatment of childhood trauma.

In meteorology, an analysis of the types and amount of clouds and precipitation on a synoptic chart in which cloud systems are identified as entities in relation to the pressure pattern and fronts.