Haemolysis
Haemolysis is the process by which Red Blood Cell(RBC) burst as a result of too much water passing through it.
Haemolysis can also be defined as the bursting of bursting of red blood cell when placed in an hypotonic solution. Haemolysis occur when the red blood cell is placed in a weaker solution i.e a solution with less concetration
than the RBC itself.
Haemolysis is the direct opposite of plasmolysis. An cell that have undergone haemolysis is said to be haemolised.
Mode of occurrence
When a red blood cell is placed in a hypotonic solution (water), there is a net movement of water into the cell through endosmosis. This causes the cell to swell and become turgid, when the the water continuously flow into the cell beyond the carrying capacity of the cell, the cell becomes overstretched and burst. The bursting of the cell is called haemolysis.