mesial

Irregular derivation from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos).

• IPA^(key): /miːzɪəl/

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mesial (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the midline of the body.

   Coordinate terms: medial, median

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:

     His pale Galilean eyes were upon her mesial groove. Venus Kallipyge. O, the thunder of those loins!

2. (dentistry) Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.

Compare the adjectives mesial, medial, and median, which overlap in meaning but are usually idiomatically non-interchangeable. Each is used in certain contexts, and shades of differentiable meaning are sometimes ascribed. Most uses of mesial are in dentistry, but not all (for example, as with the mesial aspect of the brain's temporal lobe).

• (antonym(s) of “dentistry”): distal

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ incisocervical,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry)}

• Esmail, Lamies, Maisel, Misael, Salemi, Sliema, e-mails, emails, mesail, samiel

• IPA^(key): /meˈsjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: me‧sial

mesial m or f (masculine and feminine plural mesiales)

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