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Syntaxin vs Syntaxis - What's the difference?

syntaxin | syntaxis |

As nouns the difference between syntaxin and syntaxis

is that syntaxin is (biology) any of various proteins participating in exocytosis while syntaxis is (obsolete|grammar) syntax.

syntaxin

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) Any of various proteins participating in exocytosis.
  • syntaxis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, grammar) Syntax.
  • (geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
  • "The melting and assimilation of the country rock" [The Penguin Dictionary of Geology, D.G.A. Whitten and J.R.V. Brooks]
  • (crystallography) Syntaxy.