mesial
Americanadjective
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Dentistry. directed toward the sagittal plane or midline of the face, along the dental arch.
adjective
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- mesially adverb
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Each segment of the os incisivum carries one of the incisor teeth, and each of the mesial segments may contain in addition an accessory tooth.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The pons possesses a median raphe continuous with that of the medulla oblongata, and formed like it by a decussation of fibres in the mesial plane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
In these varieties the whole cleft is mesial.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
When, during locomotion, injury is inflicted upon the mesial side of an extremity by the swinging foot of the other member, the condition is termed interfering.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
Similar to No. 581b, but slightly darker and more uniform above, with grayish edgings to interscapulars and scapulars less strongly contrasted with the darker mesial streaks, the latter usually with more brown than black.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
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