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  1.  [SUB- 11, 20 d.] Nearly or not quite central; near or close to the center.

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1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 124. The mouth beneath, subcentral.

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1836.  Penny Cycl., V. 313/2. Fissure of adhesion in the lower valve subcentral.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 461. Asplenium Trichomanes … midrib subcentral.

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  2.  [SUB- 1 a.] Being under the center.

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1828–32.  in Webster.

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  3.  [SUB- 1 b.] Anat. Beneath the central sulcus of the brain; beneath the centrum of a vertebra.

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1882.  Quain’s Elem. Anat. (ed. 9), I. 23. The precentral or subcentral parts or hypapophyses.

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1890.  Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Subcentral arch, hæmal arch.

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1901.  Amer. Anthropologist (N.S.), III. 461. The subcentral sulci of Eberstaller.

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  Hence Subcentrally adv., under or near the center or centrum. Also Subcentrical a. = 1 above.

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1824.  Du Bois, Lamarck’s Arrangem., 302. The interior [of the Orthocera] is divided into many cells, transversely separated by septa, which are traversed by a subcentrical syphon.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, 12. Several of the anterior … vertebræ, have low hypapophysial ridges developed subcentrally.

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1872.  H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 173. A pair of large compound eyes placed marginally or subcentrally.

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