Abscission (from Latin abscindere, from ab- ‘off, away’ + scindere ‘to cut’)'s the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process by which a plant intentionally drops one or more of its parts, such as a leaf, fruit, flower or seed, though the term's also used to describe the shedding of a claw by an animal, and's also the word used to describe the separation of daughter cells at the end of cytokinesis, a process that generally begins immediately following… (More on Abscission)