crick
noun(crick)
a painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back)
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verb(crick)
to cause a crick in
crick
verb(crick)
to turn or twist (something, such as one's head) especially into a strained position
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biographical name(crick)
Francis Harry Compton 1916—2004 British biophysicist
crick
adjective(crick)
of or relating to the Watson-Crick model
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noun(crick)
a model of DNA structure in which the molecule is a cross-linked double-stranded helix, each strand is composed of alternating links of phosphate and deoxyribose, and the strands are cross-linked by pairs of purine and pyrimidine bases projecting inward from the deoxyribose sugars and joined by hydrogen bonds with adenine paired with thymine and with cytosine paired with guanine