9-Letter Words Ending: YSIS

• a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

• an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures

• a growing together of parts or structures

• the end of a long bone; initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused

• a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin

• (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

• (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra

• the main (mid) section of a long bone

• lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin

• transformation of a substance produced by the action of heat

• pathological breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

• loss of the ability to move a body part