English Explanatory Dictionary

medial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.
Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
(of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
(of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
Closer to the addressee.

noun

Any of various things that occur in the middle.
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

Pronunciation

/ˈmiː.di.əl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-medial.wav

Word forms

medial more medial most medial medials

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).

Antonyms

lateral

Related words

intermedial median mesial

Derived words

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 medial moraine medialmost medialness medialorbitofrontal medial palpebral artery medial pterygoid muscle medial pterygoid nerve medial pterygoid plate medial rectus medial s medial slang medialward medialwards medio- mesomedial nonmedial orbitomedial paramedial plantomedial posteromedial

Translations

Bulgarian: среден Finnish: keski- German: zentral German: mittig Polish: środkowy Polish: centralny Romanian: median Spanish: medial

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