See Also: closed reading frame(medicine)
reading frame(medicine)
blocked reading frame(medicine)
open reading frame(medicine)
overlapping reading frame(medicine)
unidentified reading frame(medicine)
reading frame, open(medicine)
Third Reading(dictionary)
reading(2)(dictionary)
map-reading(dictionary)

cordiform (iou) and closed reading frame (medicine)


cordiform (iou)



cordiform adjective. E19.
[from Latin cor(d-) heart + -I- + -FORM.]
Heart-shaped; = CORDATE 2.

closed reading frame (medicine)


closed reading frame -->
blocked reading frame


A sequence of DNA that cannot be translated into a viable protein; usually due to the interruption by one or more termination codons.

Synonym: closed reading frame.