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subˈcentral, a.
1. [sub- 11, 21 d.] Nearly or not quite central; near or close to the centre.
1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 124 The mouth beneath, subcentral. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 313/2 Fissure of adhesion in the lower valve subcentral. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 461 Asplenium Trichomanes..midrib subcentral.
2. [sub- 1 a.] Being under the centre.
1828–32in Webster.
3. [sub- 1 b.] Anat. Beneath the central sulcus of the brain; beneath the centrum of a vertebra.
1882Quain's Elem. Anat. (ed. 9) I. 23 The precentral or subcentral parts or hypapophyses. 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Subcentral arch, hæmal arch. 1901Amer. Anthropologist (N.S.) III. 461 The subcentral sulci of Eberstaller.
Hence subˈcentrally adv., under or near the centre or centrum. Also subˈcentrical a. = 1 above.
1824Du Bois Lamarck's Arrangem. 302 The interior [of the Orthocera] is divided into many cells, transversely separated by septa, which are traversed by a subcentrical syphon. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 12 Several of the anterior..vertebræ, have low hypapophysial ridges developed sub⁓centrally. 1872H. A. Nicholson Palæont. 173 A pair of large compound eyes placed marginally or subcentrally. |