medial

adj
/ˈmiː.di.əl/

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).

  1. borrowed from mediālis

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

    • medial allegation
  2. Situated in or near the middle

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for medial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA