Median vs Mesal - What's the difference?
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(statistics) The quantity or value at the midpoint of a set of values, such that the variable is equally likely to fall above or below it; the middle value of a discrete series arranged in magnitude (or the mean of the middle two terms when there is an even number of terms).
(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
(anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
(statistics) Having the median as its value.
As adjectives the difference between median and mesal
is that median is situated in the middle; central, intermediate while mesal is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun median
is a central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.median
English
(wikipedia median)Noun
(en noun)- Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane ?
- The Greeks prescribe the median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough.