Medial Explained

Medial may refer to:

Mathematics

• Medial magma, a mathematical identity in algebra

Geometry

• Medial axis, in geometry the set of all points having more than one closest point on an object's boundary
• Medial graph, another graph that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of a plane graph
• Medial triangle, the triangle whose vertices lie at the midpoints of an enclosing triangle's sides
• Polyhedra:
  • Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron
  • Medial disdyakis triacontahedron
  • Medial hexagonal hexecontahedron
  • Medial icosacronic hexecontahedron
  • Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron
  • Medial pentagonal hexecontahedron
  • Medial rhombic triacontahedron

Linguistics

• A medial sound or letter is one that is found in the middle of a larger unit (like a word)
  • Syllable medial, a segment located between the onset and the rime of a syllable
• In the older literature, a term for the voiced stops (like b, d, g)
• Medial or second person demonstrative, a demonstrative indicating things near the addressee

Anatomy

• Medial (anatomy), term of location meaning 'towards the centre'
• Medial ligament (disambiguation), term used for various ligaments toward the midline of the human body
• Medial rotation, rotation toward the centre of the body

See also

• Medial border (disambiguation)
• Medial plantar (disambiguation)
• Medial wall (disambiguation)
• Median (disambiguation)
• Medial capitals or CamelCase, use of capital letters in the middle of a compound word or abbreviation
• Mid vowel, a vowel sound pronounced with the tongue midway between open and closed vowel positions
• Medial s <ſ>, a form of the letter s written in the middle of a word
• Human anatomical terms § Standard terms