See Also: hairpin loops(medicine)
Potemkin village(dictionary)
Potemkin, Grigory (Aleksandrovich)(encyclopedia)
capillary loops(medicine)
cruciform loops(medicine)
Cherry Buttermilk Loops(recipes)
loops of spinal nerves(medicine)
hairpin(dictionary)
hairpin(dictionary)
hairpin(medicine)

Potemkin village (iou) and hairpin loops (medicine)


Potemkin village (iou)



Potemkin village noun phr. M20.

Any of a number of sham villages reputedly built on Potemkin's orders for Catherine II's tour of the Crimea in 1787; transf. any sham or unreal thing.
A. Hutschnecker Their promises were delusions and their beautiful homes Potemkin villages.

hairpin loops (medicine)


hairpin loops
Single-stranded DNA and RNA can fold back on itself under the proper conditions forming irregular double-helical loops.