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ACROCENTRIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does acrocentric mean?
• ACROCENTRIC (adjective)
The adjective ACROCENTRIC has 1 sense:
1. having a subterminal centromere
Familiarity information: ACROCENTRIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a subterminal centromere
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
an acrocentric chromosome
Pertainym:
centromere (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape)
Context examples
The nonstaining primary constriction of a chromosome which is the point of attachment of the spindle fiber; provides the mechanism of chromosome movement during cell division; the centromere divides the chromosome into two arms, and its position is constant for a specific chromosome: near one end (acrocentric), near the center (metacentric), or between (submetacentric).
(Centromere, NCI Thesaurus)
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