Medical Dictionary
motif
noun mo·tif \mō-ˈtēf\
Medical Definition of MOTIF
: a distinctive usually recurrent molecular sequence (as of amino acids or base pairs) or structural elements (as of secondary protein structures) <a simple protein motif consisting of two alpha helices>
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