scission

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Does he not show within himself a deep scission -- between his desire to return and his deed?

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  1. noun The act of cutting or severing; division or fission.

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  • In contrast, catalytic inhibitors block the enzyme before DNA scission and do not damage DNA. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • The clathrin lattice serves as an organizing scaffold for the proteins that carry out cargo sorting, membrane invagination, vesicle scission, and uncoating. siRNA-mediated depletion of the clathrin heavy chain (CHC) has been shown to efficiently block clathrin-mediated endocytosis —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Suspicion of written word as power element • Women have difficulty speaking aloud in a group of men, but should break away from the "snare of silence" (395) • In women, there is not that scission, that division made by the common man between the logic of oral speech and the logic of the text (396). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • There is a true scission in Asian-American society ... —  8Asians.com
  • Therefore, mutant drp-1 could block scission of the mitochondrial outer membrane, while scission of the mitochondrial inner membrane was unaffected. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin scissiō, scissiōn-, from Latin scissus, past participle of scindere, to cut, split; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French scission = Italian scissione, from LL.scissio (n-), a cleaving or dividing, from Latin scindere, past participle scissus, cut, divide; cf. Greek σχίζειν, cleave, split, divide (see schism). From the L. scindere are also ult. English scissile, abscind, rescind, abscissa, shindle, shingle, etc.; also prob. schedule.
 

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