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medius

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[mee-dee-uhs] / ˈmi di əs /

noun

Anatomy.
medii plural
  1. the middle finger.


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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

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

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

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

Imbricated covering of skin of Archegosaurus medius, Goldf.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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 Preuss, Arthur

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

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

But he forgets all this in the next twenty lines; for there he gives them their own, and tells them roundly, in internecino bello, medii pro hostibus habentur.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Defoe, Daniel

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

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

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