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Complexin vs Complexion - What's the difference?

complexin | complexion |

As nouns the difference between complexin and complexion

is that complexin is a type of protein found in nerve tissue while complexion is the combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.

complexin

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of protein found in nerve tissue.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2009, date=January 23, Anton Maximov et al., Complexin Controls the Force Transfer from SNARE Complexes to Membranes in Fusion, Science citation
  • , passage=We next examined which complexin sequences mediate spontaneous and evoked fusion. }}

    complexion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * complection (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
  • *, III.10:
  • *:Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood.
  • The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
  • :
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
  • (lb) The outward appearance of something.
  • Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
  • *1844 ,
  • *:But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion , and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.
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