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hemifusions

hemifusions is the plural of hemifusion.

Meaning of hemifusion

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...

Questions about hemifusions

What is hemifusions the plural of?
Hemifusions is the plural of hemifusion.

Words near hemifusions in the dictionary

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

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