Another remarkable example of a similar concrete construction are the two airplane hangars for the Italian Air Force in Orvieto, Italy, by Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, designed in 1935 and built in 1938. They were also destroyed during World War II.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Molecular mimicry. Molecular mimicry is defined as the theoretical possibility that sequence similarities between foreign and self-peptides are sufficient to result in the cross-activation of autoreactive T or B cells by pathogen-derived peptides.
(also mimesis), a type of protective coloration and form by which an animal resembles an inanimate object in its environment, a plant, or another animal that is inedible to or protected against its predators. Enabling animals to survive in the struggle for existence, mimicry evolved as a result of natural selection.