Cleavage vs Lysis - What's the difference?
cleavage | lysis |
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.
(medicine, pathology) A gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis ).
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 157:
(biochemistry) The disintegration or destruction of cells
(biochemistry) The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules
As nouns the difference between cleavage and lysis
is that cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft while lysis is (medicine|pathology) a gradual recovery from disease (opposed to crisis ).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).
Synonyms
* (separation between breasts) intermammary sulcusSee also
* * spathic *lysis
English
Noun
(-)- The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis'' and ''crisis , one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.