What's the difference between cutting and scission?
Cutting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
(n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
(n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
(a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
(a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
(a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
(10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
(17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
Scission
Definition:
(n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The density increase can be explained by post-crystallization, which is the result of oxidative chain scission.
(2) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
(3) The results of cellular experiments using gene transfer frequencies as a measure of DNA rejoining strongly suggested that the A-T cell line had a greatly elevated frequency of misrepair of double-stranded DNA scissions.
(4) Four bisheterosteroids 3,17-dioxa-5 alpha-androstane, 3-thia-17-oxa-5 alpha-androstane, 3-aza-17-oxa-5 alpha-androstane, and 3-selena-17-oxa-5 alpha-androstane) were synthesized from 17-oxa-5 alpha-androstan-3 beta-ol via 5, 8, 8, and 9 steps, respectively, involving a second regioselective beta-scission of an alkoxyl radical as the key step.
(5) Complex formation does not result in DNA strand scission and studies of the chemical sensitivity of the complex suggest that the TFIIIA-DNA linkage may be through a phosphoramidate bond.
(6) It is concluded that Fragment B comprises the complementary portion of the heavy chain (remaining after scission of the polypeptide bond(s) releasing Fragment C) linked to the light chain by a disulfide bond.
(7) The technique involves strand scission or chemical base modification at structurally perturbed sites, replication arrest in a double-strand DNA sequencing reaction, and size analysis of replication products by electrophoresis on sequencing gels.
(8) Of particular interest, the alcohol-inducible form of liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 form 3a (P-450 IIE1) is the most active of the isozymes examined in the reductive beta-scission of the 13-hydroperoxide derived from linoleic acid and the 15-hydroperoxide derived from arachidonic acid as well as the model compounds cumyl hydroperoxide (alpha, alpha-dimethylbenzyl hydroperoxide) and t-butyl hydroperoxide.
(9) Free radicals induced by laser radiation are found to participate in DNA sugar-phosphate chain scission.
(10) In contrast, mutations which disrupted a conserved Asn-Pro-Gly-Pro (NPGP) sequence abolished primary scission.
(11) The occurrence of these latter forms indicates that double-strand scissions produced by bleomycin reaction consist of two single-strand scissions which are physically staggered on the complementary strands.
(12) In addition to representing one of the smallest and simplest ribozymes possible, strand scission occurs readily under physiological conditions, is unaffected by the presence of Mg2+, and displays salt, pH, and temperature optima of potential use in exploiting Mn2+ as a regulatory switch in intact cells.
(13) We report here that the DNA strand scission by dynemicin A is not only sequence-specific but also conformation-specific.
(14) Covalent closure by Escherichia coli ligase of a circular DNA containing single-chain scissions, when carried out in the presence of a combination of the DNA gyrase components alpha and beta, gives a positively supercoiled DNA upon removal of the bound protein molecules.
(15) One mole of DNPS is liberated per mole of free thiol in alpha 2M, consistent with cyanylation of the thiol liberated upon scission of the internal thiol esters by methylamine.
(16) The stability of the adducts was compared by analyzing the oligonucleotide for strand scission or depurination by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis following treatment under either neutral, acidic or basic conditions or incubation in the presence of piperidine.
(17) The boron derivatives also caused L-1210 DNA strand scission.
(18) These data suggest that MCR works directly on cell nuclei and strand scission of DNA is one of the more important actions of the drug.
(19) Substitution of BrdU for single thymidine positions in a synthetic 40-base pair operator provides substrate for ultraviolet irradiation; upon irradiation, strand scission occurs at the BrdU residues.
(20) We show that the same distribution of supranucleosomal structures (even those containing internal DNA scissions) can be reconstituted from unfolded nuclear chromatin extracts as present in 10 mM or 600 mM NaCl.