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cittern (iou) and I region (medicine)


cittern (iou)



cittern noun. , citheren. M16.
[formed as CITHARA after GITTERN.]
A wire-stringed musical instrument akin to the lute and usu. played with a plectrum, much used in the 16th and 17th cents.
Comb.: cittern-head a term of Abuse alluding to the grotesque carved head often found on a cittern.

I region (medicine)


I region


1. The inducible gene region of the genome of E. Coli involved in the lactose operon.

2. Region of the murine genome coding for products involved in many aspects of the immune response (from Immune Region). most of the products are Class II histocompatibility antigens.