Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, situated in, or extending toward the middle; median.
- adjective Linguistics Being a sound, syllable, or letter occurring between the initial and final positions in a word or morpheme.
- adjective Mathematics Being or relating to an average or a mean.
- adjective Average; ordinary.
- noun A voiced stop, such as (b), (d), or (g).
- noun A sound, letter, or form of a letter that is neither initial nor final.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the middle; situated or existing between two extremities or extremes; intermediate in situation, rank, or degree: as, the medial letters of a word; a medial mark on an insect's wing.
- Mean: pertaining to a mean or average.
- In modern spiritualism, pertaining to a medium or to mediumship; mediumistic: as, medial faculties; medial phenomena.
- In zoology and anatomy, same as
median and mesal. - In botany, same as
median . - In modern music, a cadence, final or not, in which the next to the last chord is inverted; an inverted cadence.
- noun In Gr. grammar, one of the mutes
β, γ, δ , as if intermediate in sound between the surd mutesπ, κ, τ and the aspiratesφ, χ, θ . The term medial (Latin media) translates the technical Greekμέσον , sc.α%27φωνον , middle mute. - noun In entomology, same as
median vein (which see, undermedian ). - noun In geometry, same as
median , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean.
- noun (Phonetics) See 2d
media .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
mean oraverage . - adjective anatomy Pertaining to the
inside ; closer to themidline . - noun One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
- noun Any of various things that occur in the middle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dividing an animal into right and left halves
- adjective relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the medial side of the foot from behind forward may be felt the _medial process (internal tuberosity) _ of the calcaneus; the _sustentaculum tali_, which lies about 1 inch vertically below the tip of the malleolus; the _tubercle of the navicular_, about 1 inch in front of the malleolus, and at a slightly lower level; the _first (internal) cuneiform_, and the base, shaft, and head of the _first metatarsal_.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Basically, if you have the data to show that this person or these people got sick because of this exposure the the spiller is actually required to do this long term medial surveillance and help the people, pay for the people to get better.
Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II 2010
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Basically, if you have the data to show that this person or these people got sick because of this exposure the the spiller is actually required to do this long term medial surveillance and help the people, pay for the people to get better.
Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II Jerry Cope 2010
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A region in the very center of the thalamus called the medial nuclei also makes the sort of distinction that is interpreted by us as "pleasant" or "unpleasant."
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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I have seen the archaic patterns of concentric circles and fish spines, (or whatever we call the medial line with slanting side lines,) neatly designed in white on the flag stones in front of cottage doors in Galloway.
The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Andrew Lang 1878
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The key areas of the brain identified -- one called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and another called the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) -- are the subject of debate among neuroscientists, but the PCC is thought by many to have a role in consciousness and self-identity.
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The key areas of the brain identified -- one called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and another called the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) -- are the subject of debate among neuroscientists, but the PCC is thought by many to have a role in consciousness and self-identity.
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The 33-year-old centre has been troubled most recently by hamstring problems, adding to a long term medial knee ligament injury.
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"Shopping, orgasm, learning, highly calorific foods, gambling, prayer," he says, "they all evoke neural signals that converge on a small group of interconnected brain areas called the medial forebrain pleasure circuit."
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But the partially complete Ardi skeleton has generated the most discussion, especially over a bone from the base of her big toe called the medial cuneiform.
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