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Medial   Listen
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Medial  n.  (Phonetics) See 2d Media.






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"Medial" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cherokee text both d and g have a medial sound, approximating the sounds of t and k respectively. The other letters are pronounced in regular accordance with the alphabet of the Bureau of Ethnology. The language abounds in nasal and aspirate sounds, the most ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... the lake up to the rocky points which terminate the true mountain canyon above the head of the lake. I have never anywhere seen more perfectly defined moraines. I climbed over the larger western moraine and found that it is partly merged into the eastern moraine of Emerald Bay to form a medial at least 300 feet high, and of great breadth. From the surface of the little lake the curving branches of the main moraine, meeting below the lake to form a terminal moraine, are very distinct. At the head of the lake there ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... stable and secular, but it has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide, these leaves hang so individually considerable? Permanence is a word of degrees. Every thing is medial. Moons are no more bounds ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson



Words linked to "Medial" :   central, medial condyle, medium, mesial, medial geniculate body



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