Word Meanings - MESIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. See Meson.

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• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• MESONEPHROS
  The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• MESONOTUM
  The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.
• MESIAL
  Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. See Meson.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• MEDIAN
  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. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• MESON
  The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. B. G. Wilder.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MESIALLY
  In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• INTERMEDIAN
  Intermediate.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.