medial
adjEtymology
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).
- borrowed from mediālis
Definitions
Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
- medial allegation
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.
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
The neighborhood
- neighborintermedial
- neighbormedian
- neighbormesial
Derived
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 · +33 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA