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View synonyms for medial
medial
[ mee-dee-uhl ]
adjective
- situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- pertaining to a mean or average; average.
- Phonetics. within a word or syllable; neither initial nor final, as the t, a, and n in stand.
noun
- Phonetics.
- a medial sound or letter.
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Derived Forms
- ˈmedially, adverb
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Other Words From
- medi·al·ly adverb
- post·medi·al adjective
- sub·medi·al adjective
- sub·medi·al·ly adverb
- super·medi·al adjective
- super·medi·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of medial1
C16: from Late Latin mediālis, from medius middle
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Example Sentences
That night Gasol hobbled off his home court with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
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The aponeurosis crosses the medial side of the insertion of M. pterygoideus dorsalis medialis.
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When the ends are brought together by rotation of these arytenoid cartilages, the medial surfaces touch.
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The limestone cannot, therefore, be a part of the carboniferous or "medial."
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In the Cherokee text both d and g have a medial sound, approximating the sounds of t and k respectively.
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Apart from countless medial and transitional forms, there are still large numbers that do not fit in any one of these categories.
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