medial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Italic *meðjos
Latin medius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin mediālisbor.
English medial
Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Base: medius
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more medial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most medial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: medials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
pos: adj
examples: medial allegation
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
examples: The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
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.
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
examples: Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
pos: adj
gloss: Any of various things that occur in the middle.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various things that occur in the middle.
pos: noun
Related words: intermedial
median
mesial
Derived words: admedial
alligation medial
antemedial
anterodorsomedial
anteromedial
antimedial
apicomedial
basomedial
bimedial
buccomedial
caudomedial
centromedial
corticomedial
craniomedial
distomedial
dorsomedial
ectomedial
epimedial
frontomedial
inferomedial
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 medullary syndrome
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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: среден
roman: sreden
lang: Finnish
word: keski-
lang: German
word: zentral
lang: German
word: mittig
lang: Polish
word: środkowy
lang: Polish
word: centralny
lang: Romanian
word: median
lang: Spanish
word: medial