medius
Americannoun
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medii
plural
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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
Approximately midway of the length of the femur this muscle fuses anteromesially with the m. femorotibialis medius.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup
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
I did not realize, as I do now, that these medii, like anybody else, have got to live; otherwise they would die and become spirits.
From Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock
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
Others803 hold that this necessitas medii did not exist under the Old Covenant.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
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
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