How to Use medial in a Sentence

medial

adjective
  • The shoes also come with a split color scheme on the medial sides and the hues are inverted from the left side to the right.
    Victor Deng For Footwear News, Robb Report, 28 July 2021
  • Football is the ultimate team sport, and that goes for the medial side as well.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Shin splints is a catchall term for pain in the front of the shins, also known as medial tibial stress syndrome.
    Outside Online, 17 June 2019
  • These are lovely medial moraines, teardrop loops of black on white when viewed from far above.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • There are two heads to the muscle, the lateral head which sits on the outside of the lower leg and the medial head that sits on the inside of the leg.
    David Otey, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Remember the figure-8 that fastens the tendon to the medial epicondyle, that small bump on your humerus bone?
    Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.
    Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Rose played in 64 games last season, his first with the Knicks, before needing a scope of a medial meniscus tear in his left knee in April.
    K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
  • Closer Craig Kimbrel was placed on the 15-day disabled list this month with a medial meniscus tear in his left knee.
    Seth Berkman, New York Times, 17 July 2016
  • The triceps are located on the back of the upper arm and made up of three distinct parts (the long head, lateral head, and medial head), says Kalsched.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
  • Kings guard Bogdan Bogdanovic will have surgery to repair a slight tear of the medial meniscus in his left knee Tuesday, the team announced.
    Jason Jones, sacbee, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The muscle takes its name from those three heads—the long head, the medial head, and the lateral head—and is essential for elbow extension.
    Men's Health, 8 May 2023
  • As the name implies, the triceps is a three-headed muscle, composed of a long, medial, and lateral head.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Whoever comes up with this is clearly someone that isn’t thinking about this from a medial point of view.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 May 2020
  • Team News Henrikh Mkhitaryan damaged his medial knee ligament in the first leg and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
    SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • This is done when the treating physician is sure that the pain is coming from these particular nerves, called the lumbar medial branch nerves.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
  • On that rehab assignment in June, Moustakas tore the medial side of the plantar fasciitis.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 25 July 2021
  • This kind of agile thinking involves the medial temporal lobe, Gluck says, and tends to decline with age.
    Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The Clippers released a statement saying that Powell fractured the medial sesamoid bone and there is no timetable for his return.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Should Irving or Harden get medial clearance to play, expect money to quickly come in on the Nets.
    Zack Jones, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The medial prefrontal cortex, parts of the brain that allow humans to express ourselves, is shown in yellow.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Kennedy would be diagnosed with a Grade 1 right medial hamstring strain.
    Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 4 May 2017
  • Electrodes were placed on the top and center of the volunteer’s head, near the medial parietal cortex—the part of the brain that completes visual scene processing.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The triceps is composed of three distinct muscles: the medial, lateral, and long heads.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 20 Dec. 2022
  • At every age, prolonged sitters show less thickness in the medial temporal lobe and the subregions that make it up, the study found.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, the medial prefrontal cortex — the area that controls responses to fear — was 11 percent bigger in pet rabbits.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The more social sins (pride, envy, lust, wrath) recruit the medial prefrontal cortex.
    Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • But while their two large front eyes, called anterior medial eyes, have high acuity, those eyes’ field of vision is small.
    Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • Oprah recorded the special in front of a live studio audience and gathers medial experts to discuss weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • After missing more than a month of games because of a foot injury diagnosed as right foot medial tendinitis, Herro made his return in Friday’s win over the Rockets.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2024

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