Crossword clues for medial
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Media \Me"di*a\, n.; pl. Medi[ae] (-[=e]). [NL., fr. L. medius middle.] 1. (Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes [beta], [delta], [gamma] (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, [pi], [tau], [kappa] (p, t, k), and the aspirat[ae] (aspirates) [phi], [theta], [chi] (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "pertaining to a mathematical mean," from Late Latin medialis "of the middle," from Latin medius "in the middle," from PIE *medhyo- "middle" (cognates: Sanskrit madhyah, Avestan madiya- "middle," Greek mesos, Gothic midjis, Old English midd "middle," Old Church Slavonic medzu "between," Armenian mej "middle"); perhaps related to PIE root *me- "between." Meaning "occupying a middle position" is attested from 1721.
"a medial letter," 1776, from medial (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 2 In or near the middle; not at either end. 3 (lb en anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline. 4 # (context entomology English) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 5 (lb en linguistics) Closer to the addressee. 6 (lb en linguistics of a consonant) central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. n. 1 One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 2 Any of various things that occur in the middle.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "medial".
The result was widely different when bits of meat were placed in a medial line at the distal or proximal ends of the disc.
A bit of raw meat, placed on several glands in the medial furrow, was well clasped in 2 hrs.
Particles of glass placed on the glands in the medial furrow did not stimulate them sufficiently for any motor impulse to be sent to the outer tentacles.
They differ also from the six sensitive filaments of Dionaea in being colourless, and in having a medial as well as a basal articulation.
The medial ball pad is under the first and second metatarso phalangeal articulations with the lateral part of the ball pad formed by the third, fourth and fifth joints.
And on the hand, here, the fingernails are likewise all missing, and the left second and third digits missing down to the medial metacarpals.
She is not its first cause or creator, and is the medial cause or medium through which they derive it from God, not its efficient cause or primary source.
Natural society is initial, civil government is medial, the church is teleological, but the three are only distinctions in one indissoluble whole.
Unruly black hair stretched densely over his upper body, gathering to the thickness of a pelt across his chest and down the medial line of his stomach.
Patterson, T A, Gilbert, D B, and Rose, S P R Pre- and posttraining lesions of the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale and passive avoidance learning in the chick.
Tohm asked, hovering over a giant rectangle, peering down into the flower-planted medial strip.
He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences.
There is loss of function and diminished sensation in the lower limbs, and the upper limbs and the medial area are similarly but less markedly affected.
The plug was snapped into a jack surgically implanted in her skull, and from the jack tiny wires snaked their way through the wet jelly to the hypothalamus, to the specific place in the medial forebrain bundle where the major pleasure center of her brain was located.
I activate this unit, it will set up a localized inductance field in the area where I calculate your medial forebrain bundle to be.