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median plane

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noun

Anatomy.
  1. a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.


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If this vertical plane runs directly down the middle of the body, it is called the midsagittal or median plane.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Brain of a human embryo, twenty-four weeks old, halved in the median plane: right hemisphere seen from inside.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Mesad: extending or directed toward the median plane.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Piece of Nummulitic Limestone from the Pyrenees, showing Nummulites laid open by fracture through the median plane; 2, vertical section of Nummulite; 3, Orbitoides.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

About 10 to 15 mm. caudad to the stomach it makes a sort of double loop to the right, a wide loop, lp, and a close one, lp�, nearer the median plane.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

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