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Homer

Homer

a Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.

alternative forms: chomer, gomer.

Origin: Heb. Khomer.

(Science: zoology) a carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

(Science: zoology) see hoemother.


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... the mutant splicing to wild-type splicing. The Morpholino blocked the binding of a splice-regulatory protein to the mutant splice site. Davis RL, Homer VM, George PM, Brennan SO. A deep intronic mutation in FGB creates a consensus exonic splicing enhancer motif that results in afibrinogenemia ...

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