microdiffusion

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ diffusion

Noun

microdiffusion (countable and uncountable, plural microdiffusions)

1. diffusion through microscopic pores
   • 2015 October 2, “Host Coenzyme Q Redox State Is an Early Biomarker of Thermal Stress in the Coral Acropora millepora”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In particular, the emerging consensus that the complexes I-III-IV occur mostly as supercomplexes further complicates attributing shifts in the CoQ redox state to a specific location in the mitochondrial ETC as electron transfer in these supercomplexes appears to occur via tunnelling or microdiffusion of CoQ/CoQH 2 rather than via a mobile CoQ pool in mitochondrial membranes [72 ].