How to Use medial in a Sentence

medial

adjective
  • These are lovely medial moraines, teardrop loops of black on white when viewed from far above.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Little polyurethane nodes are cast in the shape of Cs on the medial side and no.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 17 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s because the medial temporal lobe is linked to number sense.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Serb had undergone surgery on his medial meniscus just six weeks before but still went all the way.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Gore-Tex branding appears on the collar of the medial side and also on the left shoe’s dubrae.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • This can cut off the medial nerve that runs through the transverse carpal ligament that serves as a protective sheath for the nerves.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Kennedy would be diagnosed with a Grade 1 right medial hamstring strain.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 4 May 2017
  • 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
  • Guards began to render medial aid and brought him to the medical personnel at the prison.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Overlays and reinforcements on the medial side of the shoe are designed to stand up to sliding.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This works the medial deltoid, rear deltoid, scapula, and biceps.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2019
  • People who did high levels of sitting had less thickness in the medial temporal lobe.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The more social sins (pride, envy, lust, wrath) recruit the medial prefrontal cortex.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • Black suede dresses the upper, with red used for the tongue’s Jumpman logo and medial window.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The medial prefrontal cortex, parts of the brain that allow humans to express ourselves, is shown in yellow.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Both the medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes and obex are to be required for post-mortum testing, instead of either.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Both colorways share the same black strap and black sole unit with red accents arriving through the medial toggle and the second layer of the heel’s strap.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What remains unclear is how removing the medial ankle pivot will affect the boot’s flex pattern.
    — Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • On that rehab assignment in June, Moustakas tore the medial side of the plantar fasciitis.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 25 July 2021

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