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Meanings of cleavage in English

Portuguese
segmentação
Spanish
división celular

(Embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.

        segmentação

        The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts.

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              Usage of cleavage in English
              1
              However, whether oxidative cleavage of polypeptide-chain occurs in biological systems remains unexplored.
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              2
              However, most cleavable surfactants have utilized acid-labile functional groups to affect cleavage.
              Pubmed
              3
              Here we have the simple form of direct cleavage of the nuclei.
              The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
              4
              Great was his consternation when he discovered the cleavage in the floe.
              The Blue Envelope
              5
              The only thing he was looking into right now was my cleavage.
              The Demon Lover
              6
              However, the function of these proteins in C 2 cleavage remained unclear.
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              7
              Such products are in general called decomposition products, or sometimes cleavage products.
              The Story of Germ Life
              8
              The latter combination renders the rate-limiting O-O cleavage effectively a heterolytic process.
              Pubmed
              9
              If Calhoun and his scientists succeed, they won't just create more cleavage.
              Wired
              10
              This enhances the cleavage and reveals a lot more breast than usual.
              News.com.au
              11
              All chlorines were thus removed from the polychlorinated compound before ring cleavage.
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              12
              CaN cleavage was evident in the hippocampus 24 h after KA treatment.
              Pubmed
              13
              Good job keeping your eyes away from her cleavage, by the way.'
              Blood harvest
              14
              There also are examples of incongruity between cleavage site sequence and virulence.
              Pubmed
              15
              These may represent successive steps of binding substrate prior to catalytic cleavage.
              Pubmed
              16
              Many were for the eye-popping look that definitely showed off her cleavage.
              News.com.au
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              Translations for cleavage
              Portuguese
              segmentação
              Cleavage through the time
              Cleavage across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common