Medial

The adjective denotes medial

general:

• something that (directly) concerns or relates to a medium
• especially something that (directly) affects or relates to the mass media (general as well as technical language)

scientific:

• In medicine, an anatomical position and direction designation: Anatomical position and direction designations # Anatomical main directions ("located towards the center")
• in linguistics a diathesis
• in algebra a certain property; see Medial Magma

The word part medial stands

• in astronomy for a certain type of telescope (the medial telescope ); see Schupmann medial telescope

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Wiktionary: medial  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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