acrocentric

From acro- +‎ -centric.

acrocentric (comparative more acrocentric, superlative most acrocentric)

1. (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

acrocentric (plural acrocentrics)

1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
   • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

     This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²².