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Distensible vs Dispensible - What's the difference?

distensible | dispensible |

As adjectives the difference between distensible and dispensible

is that distensible is capable of swelling or stretching while dispensible is .

distensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of swelling or stretching.

    • Derived terms

    * distensibility

    dispensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=August 10, Yongkyu Park & Mitzi I. Kuroda, Epigenetic Aspects of X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation, Science citation
    • , passage=Another striking epigenetic aspect of Xist'' function is that the ''Xist locus is dispensible for maintenance of the inactive state (25 , 26 ). }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1997, date=October 31, John D. Woronicz et al., I{kappa}B Kinase-: NF-B Activation and Complex Formation with IB Kinase- and NIK, Science citation
    • , passage=The region of IKK- containing the leucine zipper-like motif was required both for homodimerization of IKK- and for formation of heterodimers with IKK- , whereas the putative helix-loop-helix region was dispensible . }}