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cleavage (embryology)
A progressive series of cell divisions by which a fertilized egg is transformed into the earliest embryonic stage of the blastula. The egg is divided into blastomeres (smaller cells), each containing a diploid number of chromosomes. In mammals, the second division is generally at right-angles to the first and the third at right-angles to the previous two.
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