English
Etymology
From plasm + -o- + -lysis.
Noun
plasmolysis (countable and uncountable, plural plasmolyses)
- (biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss.
- Synonym: cytoplasmolysis
Translations
shrinking of protoplasm
- Arabic: اِنْحِلَال السِيتُوبْلَازْم (inḥilāl as-sītūblāzm)
- Czech: plazmolýza (cs) f (plasmolysis of plant cells), plazmorhiza f (plasmolysis of animal cells)
- French: plasmolyse f
- German: Plasmolyse f
- Greek: πλασμόλυση (el) f (plasmólysi), πλασμολυσία (el) f (plasmolysía)
- Italian: plasmolisi (it) f
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