Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, in, near, or toward the middle.
- adjective Dentistry Situated toward the middle of the front of the jaw along the curve of the dental arch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the middle; being in the middle; in zoology, pertaining to or on the middle line or plane of the body; median. Also
mesian
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to
lateral . - adjective (Anat.) See
Meson .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pertaining to the
middle line of the body - adjective dentistry Facing the side of a
tooth which faces themiddle of thejaw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seven molars were also virtually sectioned through the mesial cusps and two-dimensional enamel thickness and dentine horn height measurements were recorded.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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But others part of the brain, the insula, which has a role in the experience of pain, and the greater mesial prefrontal cortex became activated when the subjects contemplated selling one of their items.
Boing Boing 2008
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I had mesial temporal sclerosis and lived more than 27 years of my life with seizures.
Mail Call 2007
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I had mesial temporal sclerosis and lived more than 27 years of my life with seizures.
MAIL CALL 2007
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The crown has a sharp point on the distal, then a rounded side on the mesial.
Congenitally Missing Permanent Teeth Dr. Dean Brandon 2007
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I had mesial temporal sclerosis and lived more than 27 years of my life with seizures.
MAIL CALL 2007
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His pale Galilean eyes were upon her mesial groove.
Ulysses 2003
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Extending for 9° on each side of the ecliptic is a zone or belt called the Zodiac, the mesial line of which is occupied by the Sun, and within this space the principal planets perform their annual revolutions.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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This term is applied to an affection of the tarsus which is usually characterized by the existence of an exostosis on the mesial and inferior portion of the hock.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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When, during locomotion, injury is inflicted upon the mesial side of an extremity by the swinging foot of the other member, the condition is termed interfering.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
jaime_d commented on the word mesial
"Torsos bare today, brown as gingerbread, innocent navels neatly punctuating suave mesial dents." from "Apples and Pears" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010