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hemifusion

hemifusion noun: partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion.

Noun

hemifusion (plural hemifusions)

  1. Partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion.
    • On the submillisecond time scale, long-lived hemifusion intermediates dominate; this population decays over a time scale of several microseconds (t_(1/2) = 6.3 μs) to yield fully fused vesicles.2006 August 8, Peter M Kasson et al., “Ensemble molecular dynamics yields submillisecond kinetics and intermediates of membrane fusion”, in PNAS, volume 103, number 32, →DOI, archived from the...

Forms of hemifusion

pluralhemifusions

Origin of hemifusion

From hemi- + fusion.

Questions about hemifusion

What does hemifusion mean?
Hemifusion means partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion.
What part of speech is hemifusion?
Hemifusion is a noun.
What is the plural of hemifusion?
The plural of hemifusion is hemifusions.

Words near hemifusion in the dictionary

  1. hemiformal
  2. hemiformals
  3. hemifumarate
  4. hemifumarates
  5. hemifused
  6. hemifusion
  7. hemifusions
  8. hemigaleid
  9. hemigaleids
  10. hemigamous
  11. hemiganglia

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