Etymograph

English

gapmer

From gap + -mer.

Formed from gap + -mer

Old Norse gap ‘an empty space, chasm’

Middle English gap ‘gap, opening’

English gap

Today it means

noun A chimeric, antisense oligonucleotide that contains a central block of deoxynucleotide monomers sufficiently long to induce ribonuclease cleavage

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