Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated on one side of, but near, the median line.
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- adjective to one side of the
median position
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Examples
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The nasal defect, weighing in at 2.4 cm or so, was big enough to warrant a paramedian flap, which I named Pedro the Pedicle.
Mohs Nose Woes - Part 2 aka TBTAM 2008
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The left hepatic duct, right paramedian sectoral duct, and the confluence of the right lateral sectoral duct were narrowed.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Nobuhisa Akamatsu 2010
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A 56-year-old Asian female initially presented with intrahepatic bile duct dilatation in the left lateral sector, left paramedian sector, and right paramedian sector.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Nobuhisa Akamatsu 2010
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The Assistant Director Animal Husbandry Kaspa Reddy told The Hindu that 'left paramedian incision was given for performing laparotomy'.
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Using tissue from an adult patient with an old paramedian infarct involving the red nuclei, Terao and co-workers (1996) reported that small myelinated fibers in the lateral corticospinal tract were selectively diminished at all spinal cord levels compared with large myelinated fibers.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009
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