medial
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- adjective
- /ˈmiːdiəl/
- Specialized
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medial
- The other two subjects did have medial midfoot loading (296-392 kPa) during normal walking.
- medial position
- medial canthal
- medial tibial
The brain region to which male sexual behavior has been assigned, that's another area called the medial preoptic area.
- The brain region to which male sexual behavior has been assigned, that's another area called the medial preoptic area.
- We'll review that MRI, a rotator cuff tear and then a young athlete with just a small medial meniscus tear that might need to do well with an injection.
- You know, in retrosplenial, the dorsal medial striatum response is probably due to inputs from entorhinal and retrosplenial.
- But MSH is released from the medial portion of the pituitary and it stimulates the desire to not eat, to cease eating.
Examples
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The three-toed foot was well balanced, with the medial claw being the smallest.
Fiction book (1990) -
I have a-a deep gash running vertically down my medial thigh, and then it turns lateral, just above my knee.
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For Subjects #1 and #2, the knee was medial to the foot during the stance phase.
Academic text (1992) -
PHOTO: Figure 3. An indentation test in progress on the medial side of the lower leg.
Academic text (1994) -
You see these various moraines, medial moraines going down, and then they break off into the little lake down there.
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Probably caused by acute trauma to the medial temporal lobe.
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Six test locations were used, arranged in two columns over the medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius.
Academic text (1996) -
Results: All patients were tumor-free and underwent functional and aesthetic reconstruction of the medial canthal region.
Academic text (2015) -
Pain results from improper tracking of the patella, often due to weakness of the medial thigh muscles.
Academic text (2015) -
In October, she partially tore the medial collateral ligament in her left knee.
Synonyms
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Located in the middle of something, like the line between the left and right sides of the body
Compounds
- Specialized
A part of the brain that processes sound before it reaches the hearing area
- Specialized
Muscle on the inner side of the eye that moves the eye toward the nose
- Specialized
A rounded part on the inside of the thigh bone that forms part of the knee joint
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
medial = median (semi-transparent) = medi + al
Formed from the Latin-derived combining root 'medi-' with the adjective-forming suffix '-al'; the meaning 'relating to the middle' is predictable but the Latin form is less directly linked to the everyday word 'middle'.
Etymology
Medial comes from the Latin medius, meaning 'middle'. Think of it like the English words median or medium—so medial means 'in the middle' or 'toward the centre', which is why doctors talk about the part of the body closest to the middle and linguists use it for a sound in the middle of a word.