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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Assistant Director Animal Husbandry Kaspa Reddy told The Hindu that 'left paramedian incision was given for performing laparotomy'.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • 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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