medial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əl/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more medial
form: most medial
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: medial allegation
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
examples: text: The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
text: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
ref: 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
coordinate_terms: mesial
median
antonyms: lateral
examples: text: Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
(of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
examples: text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
(of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Closer to the addressee.
Derived terms: admedial
alligation medial
antemedial
anterodorsomedial
anteromedial
antimedial
apicomedial
basomedial
bimedial
buccomedial
caudomedial
centromedial
corticomedial
craniomedial
distomedial
dorsomedial
ectomedial
epimedial
frontomedial
inferomedial
intermedial
labiomedial
lateromedial
medial canthus
medial capital
medial collateral ligament
medial cuneiform bone
medial epicondyle
medial epicondylitis
medial geniculate nucleus
medial graph
medialise
mediality
medialization
medialize
medial lemniscus
medial longitudinal fasciculus
medially
medial malleolus
medial mal
medial moraine
medialmost
medialness
medialorbitofrontal
medial palpebral artery
medial pterygoid muscle
medial pterygoid nerve
medial pterygoid plate
medial rectus
medial s
medial slang
medialward
medialwards
medio-
mesomedial
nonmedial
orbitomedial
paramedial
plantomedial
posteromedial
posteriomedial
posteroventromedial
postmedial
premedial
proximomedial
radiomedial
rostromedial
submedial
supermedial
superomedial
temporomedial
transmedial
ventromedial
Related terms: word: median
english: see explanation of overlap
translation: see explanation of overlap
word: mesial