Talk:Cytolysis

Cytolysis is no just death of cell, or is it?

From the definition, cytolysis is not just the death of a cell, but the death of a cell cause by the the rupture of the membrane or the dillution of its organelles. Therefore a plant cell could die (e.g. by dehydration), but never experience cytolysis. Is this correct? (I'm not trolling here, but if I smash a plant cell with a hammer, could this be considered cytolysis?)

I suggest we change/add this fact in the condensed definition at the start of the article. But before doing so, I would like to hear from you regarding this, especially vis-a-vis viral lysis. --Enigma 02:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)``

• I agree - according to my textbook cytolysis "is the bursting of cells" due to being in a hypotonic environment. So in other words, this article should be located at Lysis, and this page should be a redirect to that page instead, or even better a subpage from the article Lysis, which is the "disintegration or destruction of cells" (according to wiktionary). Viral lysis is not a cytolysis in my view - at first though I had heeded to the advice of other users and the original content on the page. AndyZ 01:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for answering so fast AndyZ (and thank you for the welcome message! :) ) I'm still pretty new here and I'm not as bold as the Wikipedia guidelines promote. I've never merged articles before. A great idea to refer it with or within Lysis. --Enigma 03:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• • By the way, you can use more asterisks (*) to indent your bullet farther in for organization, like I did here. I set up a disambiguation page at Lysis (disambiguation), and judging by the relative shortness of this article I can either redirect this article straight to Lysis or create Cytolysis as a subpage of Lysis, of which I prefer the 2nd option. AndyZ 00:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC) I'll work on doing this immediately. AndyZ 00:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)