Cleavage

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Cleavage may refer to:

Science[edit]

  • Cleavage (crystal), the way in which a crystal or mineral tends to split
  • Cleavage (embryo), the division of cells in an early embryo
  • Cleavage (geology), foliation of rock perpendicular to stress, a result of ductile deformation
  • Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in an optical fiber
  • Bond cleavage, in chemistry and biochemistry, the splitting of chemical bonds
  • Cleavage factor, a protein complex that helps cleave of a newly synthesized pre-messenger RNA (mRNA)
  • Cleavage furrow, in cell biology, the indentation that begins the process of cleavage, by which animal cells undergo cytokinesis
  • Proteolysis, also called peptide cleavage, the breaking down of proteins

Anatomy[edit]

  • Cleavage (breasts), the partial exposure of breasts or their intervening gap.
  • Buttock cleavage, the minor exposure of the buttocks and the gluteal cleft between them
  • Toe cleavage, the partial exposure of toes in shoes
  • Teeth cleavage or tooth cleavage, slang for diastema, the gap between a person's two front teeth

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