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pore
  1. A tiny opening in the skin.
  2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “By thoroughly inflating the skin every two or three hours during one day, the oil is forced through every pore of the skin.”
      “This will force the membrane to undergo conformational changes by forming a pore on the surface of the membrane.”
porosity
  1. (uncountable) The state of being porous
  2. (countable) A measure of how porous a material is; the ratio of the volume of pores to the total volume
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    1. “The porosity of the soil determined how easily water could flow through it.”
      “Initial porosity in well-sorted sand also is dependent on grain angularity, the porosity increasing with increase in angularity.”
      “Soil structure, or the size and arrangement of particles, determines the porosity of the soil.”
porogen
  1. Any of a mass of particles, of a specified shape and size, used to make pores in moulded structures used for tissue engineering (they are dissolved away after the structure has set)
porefield
  1. An area of pores, in the valve of a diatom, through which mucopolysaccharides extrude to make stalks and pads.
porin
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins that cross cellular membranes and act as pores through which small molecules can diffuse
porocytosis
  1. (biology) The secretion of neurotransmitters through an array of docked vesicle/secretory pore complexes
porewater
  1. (geology) The water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.
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    1. “Third, germination of papyrus from seed may have been hampered by residual saline porewater in littoral soils.”
      “Electrical charge is then carried by ions in solution in the porewater.”
      “Kuesel K, Bloethe M, Schulz D, Reiche M, Drake HL Microbial reduction of iron and porewater biogeochemistry in acidic peatlands.”
porocyte
  1. One of the tubular cells that make up the pores of a sponge.
porousness
  1. The quality of being porous; porosity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fact that it journeyed unimpeded to its final destination was offered as alarming proof of the porousness of our ports.”
      “There are obviously many degrees of cultural self-assertion, cultural defensiveness, cultural porousness and cultural boundaries.”
      “Given the porousness of U.S. borders and the volume of international traffic, sealing off the country would be a formidable task.”
porosification
  1. The process of making or becoming porous.
porer
  1. One who pores, or studies closely.
poromechanics
  1. (physics) The study of porous materials.
poring
  1. The act of one who pores.
porocytoses
  1. plural of porocytosis
porousnesses
porefields
  1. plural of porefield
porewaters
porocytes
  1. plural of porocyte
porosities
  1. plural of porosity
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    1. “In the limbs as in the lungs the blood passes from artery to vein by anastomoses and porosities.”
      “In general, the relatively large magnitude of the standard deviations with respect to the average porosities agree with the results found in Ref.”
      “Using the weights of the dry sediment and the water, total porosities were calculated for each sediment size.”
porogens
  1. plural of porogen
porings
  1. plural of poring
porers
  1. plural of porer
porins
  1. plural of porin
pores
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