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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dissolution of the nuclear chromatin: an evidence of coagulation necrosis on the part of cells.
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Examples
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Somewhat later a change, termed chromatolysis, takes place in the nerve cells, and consists of a breaking down and an ultimate disappearance of the Nissl bodies.
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These granules disappear (chromatolysis) during fatigue or after prolonged stimulation of the nerve fibers connected with the cells.
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The injection of adrenalin causes striking brain-cell changes: first, a hyperchromatism, then a chromatolysis.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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B: Section of Cerebellum of Dog Showing the Effect of the Brain-cells of Iodoform Poisoning (x310). a increased mental tone; while the brain-cells accurately display these physiologic alterations in proportional hyperchromatism in the active stages, and proportional chromatolysis in the stages of reaction.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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Animals upon whom double adrenalectomy has been performed show a striking fall in temperature, muscular weakness, -- after adrenalectomy the animal may not be able to stand even, -- and progressive chromatolysis.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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Adrenalin alone causes hyperchromatism followed by chromatolysis, and in overdosage causes the destruction of some brain-cells.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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In brief, the agencies that in our brain-cell studies were found to cause hyperchromatism followed by chromatolysis gave positive results in the Cannon test for adrenalin (Fig. 62).
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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If the axis cylinder is severed at any point, it degenerates beyond that point, and the nucleus of the nerve-cell disintegrates -- chromatolysis.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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We have found, on microscopic examination in such cases, in addition to these small extravasations, collections of colloid bodies, patches of miliary sclerosis, and chromatolysis and vacuolation of nerve-cells. [
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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