SCISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scission mean? 

• SCISSION (noun)
  The noun SCISSION has 1 sense:

1. the act of dividing by cutting or splitting

  Familiarity information: SCISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of dividing by cutting or splitting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scission" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting (the act of cutting something into parts)

 Context examples 

Hepsulfam forms covalent linkages with nucleophilic centers in DNA, resulting in depurination, base miscoding, strand scission, DNA-DNA and DNA-protein cross-linking, and cytotoxicity.

(Hepsulfam, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA Topology Regulation involves DNA topoisomerases that catalyze essential DNA transaction processes, including DNA strand scission, manipulation, and rejoining, in order to attain a balanced topology of the genome.

(DNA Topology Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Aniline mustard forms covalent linkages with nucleophilic centers, resulting in depurination, base miscoding and strand scission, and crosslinking of DNA strands, all of which contribute to its cytotoxicity.

(Aniline Mustard, NCI Thesaurus)