Medial Definition

mēdē-əl
adjective
Of or in the middle; neither beginning nor ending; median.
Webster's New World
Nearer the median plane or axis of a body or part.
Webster's New World
Being a sound, syllable, or letter occurring between the initial and final positions in a word or morpheme.
American Heritage
Of an average or mean.
Webster's New World
Average; ordinary.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
noun
A voiced stop, such as (b), (d), or (g).
American Heritage

Central.

Webster's New World
In some alphabets, the form of a letter that is used as neither an initial nor final letter.
Webster's New World
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Medial

Noun

Singular:
medial
Plural:
medials

Origin of Medial

  • Late Latin mediālis from Latin medius middle medhyo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin mediālis.

    From Wiktionary

Medial Sentence Examples

  • The longitudinal system is discontinuous, and is subdivided into proximal, medial and distal portions.

  • According to Armstrong, anthracene behaves unsymmetrically towards substituents, and hence one lateral ring differs from the other; he represents the molecule as consisting of one centric ring, the remaining medial and lateral ring being ethenoid.

  • For general purposes, however, the symbol (2), in which the lateral rings are benzenoid and the medial ring fatty, represents quite adequately the syntheses, decompositions, and behaviour of anthracene.

  • All that can be said at present about this difficult etymology is that in the non-Semitic Babylonian the medial m represented quite evidently an indeterminate nasal which could also be indicated by the combination rig.

  • The retention of medial f which in Latin became b; 2.

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Words Starting With

MMEMED

Words Ending With

LALIAL

Unscrambles

medial

Words Starting With M and Ending With L

Starts With M & Ends With LStarts With ME & Ends With LStarts With M & Ends With AL

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With M6 Letter Words Ending With L