Medial has several meanings:

• In mathematics, a medial is a set with a binary operation satisfying certain properties, see medial.
• In anatomy, a medial is an adjective describing structures near the midline of an animal, see anatomical terms of location or Human Anatomical Terms#Anatomical directions.
• In applied mathematics and shape analysis, medial is an adjective describing a curve or surface that runs along the midline of a geometrical shape. See medial axis and medial representation.
• See medial (linguistics) for the several linguistic senses of the word.

LinguisticsEdit

• The glide that occurs before the main vowel of a syllable, especially in Chinese phonology (see syllable structure)
• A voiced stop consonant
• A medial clause in a clause chain
• Medial voice, medial verb: see Middle voice
• Medial demonstrative