| Pronunciation: | | 'meedeeun
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- [n] the value below which 50% of the cases fall
- [adj] relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- [adj] dividing an animal into right and left halves
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| | Synonyms: | | central, medial, median value, mesial |
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| | See Also: | | average, norm |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Me"di*an\, a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See
{Medial}.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a
median groove.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
\Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.)
A median line or point.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A statistics term. The middle value in a set of measurements. |
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