Medical Dictionary

acrocentric

adj ac·ro·cen·tric \ˌak-rō-ˈsen-trik\

Medical Definition of ACROCENTRIC

:  having the centromere situated so that one chromosomal arm is much shorter than the other—compare metacentric, telocentric
acrocentric noun

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