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medius

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[mee-dee-uhs] / ˈmi di əs /

noun

Anatomy.
  • medii
    plural
  1. the middle finger.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of medius

1555–65; < Latin: middle (adj.); see mid 1


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About calves, hamstrings, Achilles, knees and weak glutes — they’re the three muscles in the buttocks: gluteus maximus, medius and minimus.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2019

It acts as a synergist of the gluteus medius and iliopsoas in flexing and abducting the thigh.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The quadriceps femoris is made of four muscles: the rectus femoris, the vastus lateralis, the vastus medius, and the vastus intermedius, which together extend the knee.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Festus’s wings were working properly, though his left medius membrane was shot full of holes.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Meridies denotes noon, as a point of time, which separates the forenoon from the afternoon; medius dies, the middle of the day, as a space of time which lies between the morning and the evening.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein

All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe

The first two are certainly necessary for salvation, both fide explicitâ and necessitate medii.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

We base our argumentation on the stricter, though not absolutely certain view, that all six articles must be believed necessitate medii.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

The second opinion, which limits the necessitas medii to the New Testament, lacks solid proof.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

Others803 hold that this necessitas medii did not exist under the Old Covenant.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

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