medial
pronunciation
How to pronounce medial in British English:
UK [ˈmiːdiəl]
How to pronounce medial in American English:
US [ ˈmiːdiəl]
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- Adjective:
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Word Origin
- medial
- medial: see medium
- medial (adj.)
- 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.
- medial (n.)
- "a medial letter," 1776, from medial (adj.).
Example
- 1. Clinical application of free medial arm flap in hand surgery
- 2. Experiments have shown that the medial orbitofrontal cortex processes the experience of enjoyment from smells , taste and music .
- 3. Applied anatomy of saphenous nerve-great saphenous vein nutritional vessels distally-based flap pedi-cled with perforating branch of medial anterior malleolus artery
- 4. For the avulsion of unilateral medial canthal ligament , hitching post - and drawer-like reduction fixation methods were employed .
- 5. OBJECTIVE : To study the innervations and course of the medial and inferior calcaneal nervesDESIGN : Single specimen experiment .