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Median   /mˈidiən/   Listen
adjective
Median  adj.  
1.
Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
2.
(Zool.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
Median line.
(a)
(Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.
(b)
(Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter.
Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane.
Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.



noun
Median  n.  (Geom.) A median line or point.






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"Median" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the median periphery of the cecum near the ileo-cecal valve. The perityphlitic pus appeared to be sacculated by adherent intestinal coils, but beyond the adhesions in the free abdominal cavity below the omentum there was diffuse, ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... Levites and a young Hebrew and Zoroaster himself, clad in sackcloth and barefooted, raised up the prophet's body upon a bier and bore him upon their shoulders down the broad staircase of the tower and out into the garden to his tomb. The mourners went before, many hundreds of Median women with dishevelled hair, rending their dresses of sackcloth and scattering ashes upon their path and upon their heads, crying aloud in wild voices of grief and piercing the air with their screams, ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... simple. The Median was charging with his thirty-foot lance in front of him; the Thracian knocked it aside with his buckler; the point glanced by; then he knelt, received the charge on his pike, pierced the horse's chest—the spirited beast impaling itself by its own impetus—, and finally ran ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata

... Plan of the Body. To get a clearer idea of the general plan on which the body is constructed, let us imagine its division into perfectly equal parts, one the right and the other the left, by a great knife severing it through the median, or middle line in front, backward through the spinal column, as a butcher divides an ox or a sheep into halves for the market. In a section of the body thus planned the skull and the spine together are shown to have formed a tube, containing the brain and spinal ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... one drachm; mix them together with feverfew water, and drink it in the morning betimes. About three days after the patient hath taken this purge, let her be bled, taking four or five ounces from the median, or common black vein in the foot; and then give for five successive days, filed ivory, a drachm and a half, in feverfew water; and during the time let her sit in the following bath an hour together, morning ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous


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