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adjective

Median adj.

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

(Zool.) 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.

(a)

(Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.

(b)

(Geom.) 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 (Anat.), the mesial plane.

Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.

noun

Median n. (Geom.) A median line or point.

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Etymology of 'Median'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... colorless blood, the other having no heart and a rudimentary head. Fig. 8 exhibits a double monster with lateral union. The heads are separate, and there are three upper and three lower members, those of the latter on the median line belonging equally to each ...

— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott

... had suffered, he did not venture to seat himself on it, and his example was imitated by Ahasuerus. The latter tried to have his artificers fashion him a like artistic work, but, of course, they failed. (72) The Median rulers parted with the throne to the Greek monarchs, and finally it was carried ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... and high quality during my Administration. We have made the system more efficient and have therefore treated more veterans than ever before by concentrating on out-patient care and through modern management improvements. As the median age of the American veteran population increases, we must concentrate on further changes within the VA system to keep it independent and to serve as a model to the nation and to the world as a center ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... the historians get mixed again. Some say that Belshazzar was the last king of Babylonia. In Daniel v. 30, we read: 'In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom.' Xenophon informs us that Babylon was taken in the night while the inhabitants were engaged in feasting and revelry, and that the king was killed. To this extent sacred and profane history agree. ...

— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic

... cervical vertebra, or atlas, the anterior margin of the neural arch varies a little in wild specimens, being either nearly smooth, or furnished with a small supra-median atlantoid process; I have figured a specimen with the largest process (a) which I have seen; but it will be observed how inferior this is in size and different in shape to that in a large lop-eared rabbit. ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

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