Cleavage vs Gastrulation - What's the difference?
cleavage | gastrulation |
The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
(mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.
(biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
* 1946 , "Cinema: Cleavage and the Code", Time , 5 Aug 1946:
(chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
(politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.
(embryology, biology) The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells
As nouns the difference between cleavage and gastrulation
is that cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft while gastrulation is the stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.cleavage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage " (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections).
