| -lytic | |
| —adj combining form | |
| indicating a loosening or dissolving: paralytic | |
| [from Greek, from lusis; see | |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
-lytic suff.
Of, relating to, or causing a specified kind of decomposition: lymphatolytic.