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medial

/ˈmiː.di.əl/

medial adjective: of or pertaining to a mean or average.

Adjective

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
    • medial allegation
  2. Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
    • The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
    • Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN
    Antonyms:
    lateral
  3. Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.
    • Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
  4. Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  5. (of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
  6. (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
    • 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.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  7. Closer to the addressee.

Noun

medial (plural medials)

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

medial meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

medial in Tamil

உள், உள் நோக்கி, மைய நோக்கி, இடையான

medial in Urdu

بیچ کا, درمیانی

medial in Kannada

ನಡುವಣ, ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿರುವ, ನಡುವಿನ, ಎಡೆಯಣ, ಸರಾಸರಿ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ, ಸರಾಸರಿ

Examples of medial in a sentence

  • Also common are languages, like Latin, with a three-way distinction (proximal, medial and distal).
  • The medial consonant u is scribally equivalent to v in this passage.
  • The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

All 40 example sentences with medial

Antonyms of medial

Forms of medial

Adjective
comparativemore medial
superlativemost medial
Noun
pluralmedials

Origin of medial

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

Words formed from medial

Phrases with medial

Words that rhyme with medial

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Questions about medial

What does medial mean?
Medial means of or pertaining to a mean or average.
What is medial in Tamil?
Medial in Tamil is உள், உள் நோக்கி, மைய நோக்கி. See Medial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is medial?
Medial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce medial?
Medial is pronounced /ˈmiː.di.əl/.

Words near medial in the dictionary

  1. mediagenically
  2. mediagenicity
  3. mediagraphies
  4. mediagraphy
  5. mediakin
  6. medial
  7. medial canthi
  8. medial canthus
  9. medial canthuses
  10. medial capital
  11. medial capitals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: medial (page history and authors); medial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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