Sagittal vs Median - What's the difference?
sagittal | median |
(anatomy) In the direction from dorsal to ventral.
Of or relating to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrow-like appendage.
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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 an adjective sagittal
is (anatomy) in the direction from dorsal to ventral.As a verb median is
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* sagittally * sagittal planeSee also
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(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.