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pericentromeric

pericentromeric adjective: situated near, or on each side of, the centromere of a chromosome.

Adjective

pericentromeric (comparative more pericentromeric, superlative most pericentromeric)

  1. Situated near, or on each side of, the centromere of a chromosome
  2. Related to a pericentromere

Forms of pericentromeric

comparativemore pericentromeric
superlativemost pericentromeric

Origin of pericentromeric

From peri- + centromeric.

Questions about pericentromeric

What does pericentromeric mean?
Pericentromeric means situated near, or on each side of, the centromere of a chromosome.
What part of speech is pericentromeric?
Pericentromeric is an adjective.

Words near pericentromeric in the dictionary

  1. pericentriolar
  2. pericentriole
  3. pericentriolic
  4. pericentromere
  5. pericentromeres
  6. pericentromeric
  7. pericentromerically
  8. pericentromic
  9. pericentrosomal
  10. pericentrosome
  11. pericentrosomes

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