medially

Adverb

(not comparable)

In or relating to the middle.
(anatomy) In a medial direction or location; near or along the midline.
(anatomy) In a medial direction or location; nearer or toward the midline.
(linguistics) Inside a word; neither initially nor finally.

Origin

From medial +‎ -ly.

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In English th represents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 5, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both.
The " brush-formed " organs of the Podocopa are medially placed, and, in spite of their sometimes forward situation, Miller believes among other possibilities that they and the penis in the Cypridinidae may be alike remnants of a third pair of legs, not homologous with the penis of other Ostracoda (Podocopa included).
A consonant occurring medially is, generally speaking, invariable in the present language; thus the p and d of cupidus are b and dd in cybydd; but with the initial consonant the case is different.

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