mesial
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Dentistry. directed toward the sagittal plane or midline of the face, along the dental arch.
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On the mesial side of this corpus dentatum lie three smaller nuclei.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Sprains of the mesial tarsal ligaments cause lameness somewhat similar to that of spavin.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
Zodiac, zō′di-ak, n. an imaginary belt in the heavens, having as its mesial line the ecliptic or apparent path of the sun, and containing the twelve constellations, called signs of the zodiac.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
French veterinarians consider under the title of "courbe," an exostosis situated on the mesial side of the distal end of the tibia.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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