medial

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

CONDITION OF PATIENT: CLINICAL EVALUATION: There was a 1 cm. punctate missile wound over the juncture of the middle and lower third, medial aspect, of the left thigh. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Two merging glaciers unite the material carried on their joined edges and form a medial moraine, a ribbon broadening and thickening as it descends; a glacier made up of several tributaries carries as many medial moraines. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard
He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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