subˈcentral, a.
1. [sub- 11, 21 d.] Nearly or not quite central; near or close to the centre.
| 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 124 The mouth beneath, subcentral. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 313/2 Fissure of adhesion in the lower valve subcentral. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 461 Asplenium Trichomanes..midrib subcentral. |
2. [sub- 1 a.] Being under the centre.
| 1828–32 in Webster. |
3. [sub- 1 b.] Anat. Beneath the central sulcus of the brain; beneath the centrum of a vertebra.
| 1882 Quain's Elem. Anat. (ed. 9) I. 23 The precentral or subcentral parts or hypapophyses. 1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Subcentral arch, hæmal arch. 1901 Amer. Anthropologist (N.S.) III. 461 The subcentral sulci of Eberstaller. |
Hence subˈcentrally adv., under or near the centre or centrum. Also subˈcentrical a. = 1 above.
| 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. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 12 Several of the anterior..vertebræ, have low hypapophysial ridges developed sub⁓centrally. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Palæont. 173 A pair of large compound eyes placed marginally or subcentrally. |