cleavage: significato e definizioni

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Cos'è cleavage?

Cos'è cleavage?

  • The act of splitting or cleaving.
  • The state of being split or cleft; a fissure or division.
  • Mineralogy The splitting or tendency to split of a crystallized substance along definite crystalline planes, yielding smooth surfaces.
  • Embryology The series of mitotic cell divisions that produces a blastula from a fertilized ovum. It is the basis of the multicellularity of complex organisms. Also called segmentation.
  • Embryology Any single cell division in such a series.
  • Chemistry The splitting of a complex molecule, such as a polysaccharide, into simpler molecules.
  • Informal The hollow between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.

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