hauberk (plural hauberks) A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 14: The hauberk was a complete covering of mail from head to foot. It consisted of a hood, joined to a jacket with sleeves, breeches, stockings and shoes of double chain mail, to which were added gauntlets of the same construction.
1 Exons are expressing sequences within a pre-mRNA molecule that are spliced together once introns are removed to form mature mRNA molecules that are translated into proteins.  Alternative splicing allows for the production of various protein isoforms from one single gene coding.
Genes and RNA Splicing. In the SMN gene the protein coding information (exons) are interrupted by non-coding regions (introns). The introns need to be edited out of the RNA to produce the final set of instructions for the SMN protein. This process is called RNA splicing.. An animation shows how the DNA genetic code is made into protein.