glycolysis
‘a metabolic process that occurs in nearly all living cells in which glucose is converted in a series of steps to pyruvic acid and during which energy is released in the form of ATP’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
glyco- + -lysis < Gk. lysis ‘a loosening, setting free, releasing’ < lyein ‘to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie’ < luh < leu- < Tamil aṟuttal