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Paraxial vs Paraxis - What's the difference?

paraxial | paraxis |

As an adjective paraxial

is (embryology) lateral to the neural tube.

As a noun paraxis is

(protein) a basic helix-loop-helix protein expressed in paraxial mesoderm and developing somites.

paraxial

English

Adjective

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  • (embryology) Lateral to the neural tube
    • paraxial mesoderm
  • (physics) Near an optical axis
    • paraxial radiation
  • (mathematics) Parallel to one or more axes of the coordinate system
    • paraxial rectangle

    Derived terms

    *paraxially

    Related terms

    *epaxial *hypaxial

    paraxis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (protein) A basic helix-loop-helix protein expressed in paraxial mesoderm and developing somites