medial
See also: médial
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
- medial allegation
- Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
- (anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.
- Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
- (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
- (phonetics, linguistics) (of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
- (phonetics) (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
Coordinate terms edit
- (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proximal, ventral (Category: en:Medicine) [edit]
Derived terms edit
- admedial
- alligation medial
- antemedial
- anterodorsomedial
- anteromedial
- antimedial
- basomedial
- bimedial
- buccomedial
- caudomedial
- centromedial
- corticomedial
- craniomedial
- distomedial
- dorsomedial
- ectomedial
- epimedial
- frontomedial
- inferomedial
- intermedial
- labiomedial
- lateromedial
- medial canthus
- medial capital
- medial capital
- medial collateral ligament
- medial cuneiform bone
- medial epicondyle
- medial epicondylitis
- medial geniculate nucleus
- medial graph
- mediality
- medialize
- medial lemniscus
- medial longitudinal fasciculus
- medially
- medial malleolus, medial mal
- medial moraine
- medialmost
- medialness
- medialorbitofrontal
- medial pterygoid muscle
- medial pterygoid nerve
- medial pterygoid plate
- medial rectus
- medial s
- medial slang
- medialward, medialwards
- medio-
- mesomedial
- nonmedial
- orbitomedial
- paramedial
- plantomedial
- posteromedial, posteriomedial
- posteroventromedial
- postmedial
- premedial
- proximomedial
- radiomedial
- rostromedial
- submedial
- supermedial
- superomedial
- temporomedial
- ventromedial
Related terms edit
Translations edit
of or pertaining to a mean or average
in or near the middle; not at either end
closer to the median plane or midline
Noun edit
medial (plural medials)
- Any of various things that occur in the middle.
References edit
- “medial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “medial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
medial (strong nominative masculine singular medialer, not comparable)
Declension edit
Positive forms of medial (uncomparable)
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist medial | sie ist medial | es ist medial | sie sind medial | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | medialer | mediale | mediales | mediale |
genitive | medialen | medialer | medialen | medialer | |
dative | medialem | medialer | medialem | medialen | |
accusative | medialen | mediale | mediales | mediale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der mediale | die mediale | das mediale | die medialen |
genitive | des medialen | der medialen | des medialen | der medialen | |
dative | dem medialen | der medialen | dem medialen | den medialen | |
accusative | den medialen | die mediale | das mediale | die medialen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein medialer | eine mediale | ein mediales | (keine) medialen |
genitive | eines medialen | einer medialen | eines medialen | (keiner) medialen | |
dative | einem medialen | einer medialen | einem medialen | (keinen) medialen | |
accusative | einen medialen | eine mediale | ein mediales | (keine) medialen |
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French médial, from Latin medialis.
Adjective edit
medial m or n (feminine singular medială, masculine plural mediali, feminine and neuter plural mediale)
Declension edit
Declension of medial
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | medial | medială | mediali | mediale | ||
definite | medialul | mediala | medialii | medialele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | medial | mediale | mediali | mediale | ||
definite | medialului | medialei | medialilor | medialelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mediālis. Cf. also meaja.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
medial m or f (masculine and feminine plural mediales)
- medial
Derived terms edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “medial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014