hemifusion

Etymology

From hemi- + fusion.

hemifusion means partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

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.”