Medial (disambiguation)

Medial has several meanings:


 * In mathematics, a medial is a set with a binary operation satisfying certain properties, see medial.
 * In anatomy, a medial is an adjective describing structures near the midline of an animal, see   anatomical terms of location or Human Anatomical Terms.
 * In applied mathematics and shape analysis, medial is an adjective describing a curve or surface that runs along the midline of a geometrical shape. See medial axis and medial representation.
 * See medial (linguistics) for the several linguistic senses of the word.

Linguistics

 * The glide that occurs before the main vowel of a syllable, especially in Chinese phonology (see syllable structure)
 * A voiced stop consonant
 * A medial clause in a clause chain
 * Medial voice, medial verb: see Middle voice
 * Medial demonstrative