Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mesally .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Anat.) In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
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Examples
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The leather splints are placed mesially and laterally and, of course, need to extend as high as the proximal end of the radius.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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In some instances the protruding parts assume large proportions, but always, because of the relationship between the fibular tarsal bone (calcaneum) and the tendon sheath, the larger protrusion is situated mesially.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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