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Medical Definition of Hairpin loop
1. An area where single-stranded DNA or RNA has folded back on itself and nucleotides from the two separate segments have base paired, so that the resulting structure appears as the name describes. (09 Oct 1997)
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1. An area where single-stranded DNA or RNA has folded back on itself and nucleotides from the two separate segments have base paired, so that the resulting structure appears as the name describes. (09 Oct 1997)