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Word Meanings - MEDIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which

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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. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. 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 , the mesial plane. -- Median point , the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect. (more info) 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

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