Lysis (disambiguation)

Lysis is the breaking down of the membrane of a cell. Lysis may also refer to:
 * Lysis (dialogue), a dialogue of Plato about friendship (philia)
 * Lysis of Taras (fl. c.  5th century BCE), Greek philosopher
 * Lysis, one of the stages of the lytic cycle, one of the two cycles of viral reproduction
 * Alkaline lysis, a method used in molecular biology to isolate plasmid DNA from bacteria