cleav·age
n 1 : the series of synchronized mitotic cell divisions of the fertilized egg that results in the formation of the blastomeres and changes the single-celled zygote into a multicellular embryo : also : one of these cell divisions 2 : the splitting of a molecule into simpler molecules .
Similar sounding terms: co·li·phage
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