Crossword-Solution: AUTOLYSIS 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Substances rich in the vitamine apparently yield the latter more readily if they have first been subjected to autolysis or if the extracting fluid is acidified.

However, Osborne and Wakeman have produced a method of treating fresh yeast by boiling it with slightly acidified water which seem as efficient as autolysis in the yield produced.

How utterly unmechanical a living body is, at least how far it transcends mere mechanics is shown by what the chemists call "autolysis." Pulverize your watch, and you have completely destroyed everything that made it a watch except the dead matter; but pulverize or reduce to a pulp a living plant, and though you have destroyed all cell structure, you have not yet destroyed the living substance; you have annihilated the mechanism, but you have not killed the something that keeps up the life process.

This, of course, might explain resolution, but it is difficult to see without further study how serum can reach the exudate to inhibit autolysis, and in this way stimulate organization, in one case of pneumonia and not in another.

The _phosphates_ are known to be increased in the urine of cancer subjects, although irregularly and in an inverse ratio to the chlorides; as inanition increases there is greater autolysis of cellular structure, and the nuclei yield an excess of phosphates, which are excreted in the urine.