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pericentric, a.|pɛrɪˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. peri- + centric a.]
1. Arranged or situated around a centre or central body.
1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Pericentricus, Bot., applied by A. Richard to the insertion of stamens when the undivided part of the calyx being plane or only concave, the stamens appear to be disposed around the centre, as in the Polygoneæ: pericentric. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Pericentric, accumulated or deposited around a central point: specifically, in geology, said of lava accumulated on the sides of a cone, either in streams or as falling fragments.
2. Cytology. [cf. -centric 2.] Involving parts of a chromosome at both sides of the centromere. Opp. paracentric a.
1938[see paracentric a.]. 1962Lancet 6 Jan. 21/2 Chromosome analyses in a girl with mongolism and in her parents have disclosed abnormalities which we attribute to pericentric inversion of a maternal 21st chromosome. 1973Nature 3 Aug. 260/2 The very fact that some X chromosomes, such as that of the mouse are acrocentrics reveals that pericentric inversions did occasionally occur. 1977Ibid. 6 Jan. 65/2 The aberrant chromosome was interpreted as an aneusomic recombinant from the father who was heterozygous for a pericentric inversion of chromosome 4. |