Usually means: Non-coding DNA within genes.
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  1. intron: Merriam-Webster
  2. intron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intron, intron: Wordnik
  7. intron: Wiktionary
  8. intron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. intron: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. intron: Dictionary.com
  11. Intron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. intron: Rhymezone
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  15. intron: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. intron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. intron: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Intron: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  7. intron: Medical dictionary
  8. Intron: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. intron: Evolution Glossary
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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  1. intron: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See introns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (intron)

noun:  (genetics) A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.

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