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A door so small it lets sweat out and conspiracy theories in.
means As a verb, to read or study something with deep, careful attention; as a noun, a tiny opening in a surface (like skin) through which fluids or gases pass.
from Two separate words wearing the same coat. The verb 'pore' (as in pore over a book) comes from Middle English 'pouren,' to gaze intently — its deeper roots are murky and uncertain. The noun 'pore,' the little skin-hole, traveled from Greek 'poros' meaning 'passage' or 'pore,' through Latin 'porus' and Old French, into English. The Greek 'poros' is a cousin of words about ways and crossings — the same family that gives us 'emporium,' literally a place you pass through to trade.
- count
- Skin hosts roughly five million of them
- can't shrink
- Pores have no muscles to open or close
- oil pipe
- Each one is a tiny sebum factory exit
- verb twin
- To pore over means intense studying
- breathing myth
- Skin doesn't actually breathe through them
stomata on leaves — plants exchange gases through millions of microscopic pores, each plant has hundreds of thousands
sweat pores human skin — humans have approximately 2-4 million sweat pores covering their entire body surface
nuclear pore complex — protein channels in cell nuclei that allow molecules to pass, discovered in 1950s