- epitheliolysin
- ep·i·the·li·ol·y·sin (ep″ĭ-the″le-olґə-sin) a cytolysin formed in the serum of an animal when epithelial cells from an animal of a different species are injected. The epitheliolysin has the power of destroying epithelial cells of an animal of the same species as that from which the epithelial cells were originally taken.
Medical dictionary. 2011.