adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a concentric manner; ‘in a manner directing to, or exhibiting, one common centre’ (T.).
1712. Clarke, 3rd & 4th Defence, 13. Pieces of Surfaces spherically and concentrically convex.
1766. Pennant, Zool., Spoon-hinge Shell (R.). Shell oblong … obsoletely striated concentrically.
1872. Huxley, Phys., vii. 161. Arranged in circles, concentrically with the aperture.
1876. trans. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., VI. 211. We find the left ventricle concentrically hypertrophied.
