acrocentric

English

Etymology

From acro- +‎ -centric.

Adjective

acrocentric (comparative more acrocentric, superlative most acrocentric)

1. (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

Translations

having the centromere near an end

• French: acrocentrique (fr) m or f
• Irish: acraiceintreach
• Italian: acrocentrico
• Portuguese: acrocêntrico

Noun

acrocentric (plural acrocentrics)

1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
   • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

     This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²².