Medical Dictionary

metacentric

adj meta·cen·tric \ˌmet-ə-ˈsen-trik\

Medical Definition of METACENTRIC

:  having the centromere medially situated so that the two chromosomal arms are of roughly equal length—compare acrocentric, telocentric
metacentric noun

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