n, pl  lo*ci   1  :  a place or site of an event, activity, or thing <the geniculate of all axon terminals relates to the retinal of their cells of origin -R. W. Guillery et al>   2  :  the position in a chromosome of a particular gene or allele .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  lax  li·gase  lux 
 
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