Definition of "medial"

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to a mean or average.  examples

Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.

1. (anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.  examples

2. (anatomy) Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.  examples

3. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.

4. (phonetics) (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word.  examples

5. (phonetics) (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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, […]

6. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.  examples

Any of various things that occur in the middle.

1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.  examples