Usage of "cleavage" | TermGallery

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(Embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.

The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts.

Usage of cleavage in English

However, whether oxidative cleavage of polypeptide-chain occurs in biological systems remains unexplored. 
 Pubmed 

However, most cleavable surfactants have utilized acid-labile functional groups to affect cleavage. 
 Pubmed 

Here we have the simple form of direct cleavage of the nuclei. 
 The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 

Great was his consternation when he discovered the cleavage in the floe. 
 The Blue Envelope 

The only thing he was looking into right now was my cleavage. 
 The Demon Lover 

However, the function of these proteins in C 2 cleavage remained unclear. 
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Such products are in general called decomposition products, or sometimes cleavage products. 
 The Story of Germ Life 

The latter combination renders the rate-limiting O-O cleavage effectively a heterolytic process. 
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If Calhoun and his scientists succeed, they won't just create more cleavage. 
 Wired 

This enhances the cleavage and reveals a lot more breast than usual. 
 News.com.au 

All chlorines were thus removed from the polychlorinated compound before ring cleavage. 
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CaN cleavage was evident in the hippocampus 24 h after KA treatment. 
 Pubmed 

Good job keeping your eyes away from her cleavage, by the way.' 
 Blood harvest 

There also are examples of incongruity between cleavage site sequence and virulence. 
 Pubmed 

These may represent successive steps of binding substrate prior to catalytic cleavage. 
 Pubmed 

Many were for the eye-popping look that definitely showed off her cleavage. 
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cleavage

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Translations for cleavage

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Cleavage through the time

Cleavage across language varieties

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Meanings of cleavage in English