Dehydration vs. Hydrolysis

Dehydrationnoun

The act or process of removing water from something.

Hydrolysisnoun

(chemistry) A chemical process of decomposition involving the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion of water.

Dehydrationnoun

The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Hydrolysisnoun

A chemical process causing the splitting of a chemical bond by the addition of the elements of water. Where the bond which is split is not part of a ring structure, this process causes formation of two compounds from one compound plus water, as in the hydrolysis of the ester bonds of fats during saponification.

Dehydrationnoun

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

Hydrolysisnoun

a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water

Dehydrationnoun

dryness resulting from the removal of water

Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis (; from Ancient Greek hydro- 'water', and lysis 'to unbind') is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds. The term is used broadly for substitution, elimination, and solvation reactions in which water is the nucleophile.Biological hydrolysis is the cleavage of biomolecules where a water molecule is consumed to effect the separation of a larger molecule into component parts.

Dehydrationnoun

depletion of bodily fluids

Dehydrationnoun

the process of extracting moisture

Dehydration

In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes. It occurs when free water loss exceeds free water intake, usually due to exercise, disease, or high environmental temperature.