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Axen vs Axin - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between
axen
and
axin
is that
axen
is ashes while
axin
is (medicine) a fatty and varnish-like substance produced in mexico by an insect,
coccus axinus
, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.
axen
English
Noun
(
head
)
Ashes.
English words suffixed with -en
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axin
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun
)
(biochemistry) A large docking protein that in humans is encoded by the
AXIN1
gene, and that binds APC, GSK-3?, casein kinase I?, and ?-catenin.