MEDIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medial mean? 

• MEDIAL (adjective)
  The adjective MEDIAL has 2 senses:

1. dividing an animal into right and left halves

2. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

  Familiarity information: MEDIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dividing an animal into right and left halves

Synonyms:

medial; median

Similar:

mesial (being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

Synonyms:

medial; median

Similar:

central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)

Derivation:

medium (a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position)

 Context examples 

A bone in the second toe from the medial side of the foot.

(Foot Digit 2 Phalanx, NCI Thesaurus)

The middle or third toe from the medial side of the foot.

(Foot Digit 3, NCI Thesaurus)

A bone in the middle or third toe from the medial side of the foot.

(Foot Digit 3 Phalanx, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the callosomarginal artery, frontopolar artery, medial orbitofrontal artery, pericallosal artery, and recurrent artery of Heubner.

(Anterior Cerebral Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

The second toe from the medial side of the foot.

(Foot Digit 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A bone in the largest and most medial toe of the foot.

(Foot Digit 1 Phalanx, NCI Thesaurus)

A brain region in the medial temporal lobe near the hippocampus.

(Entorhinal Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

The largest and most medial toe of the foot.

(Foot Digit 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The second branch arising from the pericallosal artery within the cingulate sulcus that has branches supplying the medial and superolateral surfaces of each cerebral hemisphere.

(Callosomarginal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The fourth toe from the medial side of the foot.

(Foot Digit 4, NCI Thesaurus)