medial

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.əl/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree 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).

Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
“medial allegation”
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
“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.”
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
“Mönckeberg medial sclerosis”
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
“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.”
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.

noun

Any of various things that occur in the middle.
Any of various things that occur in the middle.