Situated in the middle central, intormediate. [from 16th c.] || (anatomy) In the middle of an organ, structure etc. towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.] || (statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]
To become more medial. || To rendor (a consonant) more medial.
Arytenoid adduction amd rotation is anothor technique that seeks to medialize the vocal process of the paralyzed arytenoid cartìlage.
Faìlure of nasal bones to medialize is due to an obstructive phenomenon between the two nasal bones.
|adjective|
1.(of a speech sound) in the middle of a word.
‘a _medial_ consonant’
‘There is no b in dummy, derived from dumb, or crummy, derived from crumb, and although b is not pronounced finally in bomb, _medial_ b is pronounced in bombard.’
2.(of a vowel) pronounced in the middle of the mouth; central.
3.Situated in the middle.
‘Not until after midnight, in an eerie twilight, do we sideslip around a _medial_ moraine and discover two gigantic black holes in the silver glacier.’
‘A _medial_ moraine is a strip of morainal debris in the middle of glacier ice which marks where two glaciers come together.’
4.Situated near the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
‘a _medial_ ligament’
‘The deep branch innervates the quadriceps muscle, knee joint, and _medial_ ligament.’
形容词 变体/同根词
‘a _medial_ consonant’
