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hemifusion

noun

Etymology

From hemi- + fusion.

  1. derived from fūsiōnem
  2. borrowed from fusion
  3. prefixed as hemifusion — “hemi- + fusion”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hemifusion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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