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a ridge of glacial drift formed by the junction of two converging valley glaciers.

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Words nearby medial moraine

medial geniculate body, media literacy, medial ligament, medial longitudinal fasciculus, medial longitudinal stria, medial moraine, medial occipitotemporal gyrus, medial plantar nerve, medial pterygoid muscle, medial rectus muscle, medial supraclavicular nerve

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How to use medial moraine in a sentence

That night Gasol hobbled off his home court with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
The Nate Silver of Sports Injuries|Evin Demirel|May 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling|Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The aponeurosis crosses the medial side of the insertion of M. pterygoideus dorsalis medialis.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves|Robert L. Merz
We now put on the rope again, and so crossed the easy glacier which led down to the moraine on which I had been two months before.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Ultimately I struggled across the glacier, bearing various burdens, to meet them as they came down on a parallel moraine.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
I camped, at about 19,500 feet, on the moraine-covered glacier opposite the junction of the northerly branch from Pks.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
A terminal moraine, a mile and a half in depth, separates it from the sea.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska|Charles Warren Stoddard

Scientific definitions for medial moraine

medial moraine

[ mē′dē-əl ]

See under moraine.

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