scissible

Adjective

scissible (comparative more scissible, superlative most scissible)

1. Capable of being cut by a sharp instrument.
   • The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practice .1620, Francis Bacon, Natural History
   • The herein described article comprising a rolled-up sheet of thin soft material coated with an adhesive substance, stiffening strips of scissible material secured to opposite ends of the sheet , a plurality of suspension loops secured to one end of the sheet. and a wrapper of scissible material...1917 October 9, Otto Braedt, “1242648: Fly-Catcher”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
2. That can be severed or broken (often by a specific enzyme or catalyst).
   • The former need the presence of either a free α-NH₂ or a α-COOH group adjacent to scissible bond, whereas the latter cleaves peptide bonds of the polypeptide chain distant to the termini.1988, A. Asghar, A. R. Bhatti, “Endogenous Proteolytic Enzymes”, in Advances in Food Research, volume 31, page 345
   • This latter Ca²⁺ site, of unknown location, is influenced by Asp residues at P3(D¹⁶⁷0 and P3' (D¹⁷²) of the scissible activation peptide bond of PC1996, Thrombosis and Haemostasis