pluricentral

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English

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Etymology

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From pluri- +‎ central.

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Adjective

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pluricentral (comparative more pluricentral, superlative most pluricentral)

  1. Pluricentric; having more than one centre.
    • 1908, Medical Chronicle[1], page 298:
      Tanberg remarks that histologists are now generally agreed that multiple primary carcinomas can develop from several primary centres ("pluricentral development")
    • 1950, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales[2], page 261:
      Ludwig advanced the idea that growth in area of the skin is “quantitatively pluricentral”, each surface element increasing through reproduction of its own special cells.
    • 2012 December 6, Hector Sabelli, “The Co-Creation Hypothesis”, in Gillian Ragsdell, Jennifer Wilby, editors, Understanding Complexity[3], Springer, →ISBN, page 26:
      This is consonant with clinical experience and suggests practical guidelines for family therapy and for social organization (e.g. marital equality, political opposition rather than consensus, pluricentral management []

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