autosomen.
/ˈɔːtəsəʊm/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌsoʊm/, /ˈɑdəˌsoʊm/ Genetics.
Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
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chromoplastid1885
accessory chromosome1899
chromoplast1902
X1902
heterochromosome1904
idiochromosome1905
macrochromosome1905
allosome1906
autosome1906
monosome1906
sex chromosome1906
supernumerary1907
X chromosome1911
Y chromosome1911
univalent1912
euchromosome1914
W1917
monosome1921
tetrasome1921
trisome1921
heterosome1938
isochromosome1939
trisomic1939
metacentric1945
acrocentric1949
polycentric1953
Philadelphia chromosome1961
monocentric1979
1906 T. H. Montgomery in Science 5 Jan. 36/2 Autosoma (or autosome), the usual or non-aberrant chromosomes, called by me previously ordinary chromosomes.
1906 T. H. Montgomery in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 21 97 I here employ the following nomenclature..Autosome (autosoma), the non-aberrant chromosomes that I have previously called ordinary chromosomes.
1950 E. B. Ford Study Heredity iii. 32 The sex chromosomes..do not differ from the autosomes except that they carry, among others, the genes which decide whether development shall proceed along male or female lines.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) vii. 813 Most somatic cells are diploid and contain, in man, 22 pairs of autosomes or non-sex chromosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes.
2003 Washington Post 19 June (Home ed.) a3/2 The ‘X-degenerate region’..is what is left of the ancient pair of autosomes from which the X and Y evolved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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