Mesial

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  • adjective. Of, in, near, or toward the middle.
  • adjective. Situated toward the middle of the front of the jaw along the curve of the dental arch.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the middle; being in the middle; in zoology, pertaining to or on the middle line or plane of the body; median. Also mesian
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral.
  • adjective. See Meson.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. pertaining to the middle line of the body
  • adjective. Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body
    • Word Usage
    "Seven molars were also virtually sectioned through the mesial cusps and two-dimensional enamel thickness and dentine horn height measurements were recorded."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    distal  lateral  
    cross-reference
    mesial aspect  mesial line  mesial plane  
    Equivalent
    medial  median  sagittal  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    10-degree  amygdaloid  amyotrophic  authors  cricoarytenoid  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    internal  median  middle  
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