The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Median \Me"di*an\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*an), a. [L. medianus, fr. medius
middle. See Medial.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a
median groove.
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2. (Zool.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing
a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of
unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
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Median line.
(a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either
of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the
surface of the body.
(b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to
the middle of the opposite side; any line having the
nature of a diameter.
Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane.
Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median
lines of a triangle mutually intersect.
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