English

Adjective

medial ‎(comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

   medial allegation‎

2. In or near the middle; not at either end.
   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:

     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.

3. (anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.

   The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.‎

   1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
4. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
5. (linguistics, of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

Antonyms

• (anatomy): lateral

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,‎ distal,‎ dorsal,‎ lateral,‎ medial,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}

Derived terms

• medial capital
• medially

Related terms

• median

Translations

Noun

medial ‎(plural medials)

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

Anagrams

• Dameli
• mailed

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin mediālis.

Adjective

medial m, f ‎(plural mediales)

1. medial