Definition of median

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Median (a.) 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..

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Mesial :: Mesial (a.) Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral..
Third :: Third (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
Comic :: Comic (n.) A comedian.
Raphe :: Raphe (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue..
Mentum :: Mentum (n.) The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.
Abductor :: Abductor (n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward..
Scissors-tailed :: Scissors-tailed (a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones..
Intermedian :: Intermedian (a.) Intermediate.
Submediant :: Submedian (a.) Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks..
Entoplastron :: Entoplastron (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.
Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..
Hybodont :: Hybodont (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones..
Heteropoda :: Heteropoda (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells..
Comedian :: Comedian (n.) A writer of comedy.
Rhinoceros :: Rhinoceros (n.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout..
Submental :: Submediant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant..
Nuchal :: Nuchal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles..
Fork-tailed :: Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
Urosteon :: Urosteon (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.
Mesethmoid :: Mesethmoid (n.) The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone..
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