Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Cut or split easily.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being cut or divided, as by a sharp instrument; scissible.
  • noun Same as scissel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Readily cut or split
  • adjective chemistry, of a bond easily broken

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Latin scissilis, from scissus, past participle of scindere, to cut; see scission.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum, to cut, to split: compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.

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Examples

  • The gills are also scissile, that is, they can be split, and are linear and swollen in the middle.

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  • The signal corresponding to the scissile +1 peptide bond could only be observed for

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  • Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.

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  • Then the twist of the scissile bond, together with the bending of − 1 NAG, makes the glycosidic oxygen accessible to the catalytic residue Glu315 for cleavage

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010

  • Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • We show that incorporation of this highly reactive beta-turn inducing aromatic "Eda" moiety at the scissile P1-P1′ amide bond of a prodomain peptide of human furin led to a potent furin-inhibitor with inhibition constant K

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ajoy Basak et al. 2009

  • The above furin-Eda-peptide (II) contains a highly reactive β-turn inducing unnatural Eda-amino acid inserted between the scissile

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ajoy Basak et al. 2009

  • Such specificity effects originating from side-chains distal from the scissile N-terminal peptide bond are, to our knowledge and up to date, unique to this aminopeptidase and have only been partially observed before as differential substrate specificity depending on the C-terminus of an unrelated series of peptides

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Irini Evnouchidou et al. 2008

  • (a) Schematic representation of linear (10) and branched (11) constructs with the scissile +1 peptide bond site-specifically labeled with

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  • 13C and 15N isotopes at both the scissile +1 amide bond (labeled b) and the amide connecting Phe194 and Val195 (labeled a).

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