admedianadj.
/adˈmiːdɪən/, U.S. /ædˈmidiən/ Zoology.
Situated close to the median plane.
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1883 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 640/2 In a large number of Glossophora we have three admedian [teeth] on each side and one median, no lateral pieces.
1909 Lancet 4 Sept. 710/1 Thorax [sc. of a fly]: dorsum with three longitudinal clove-brown stripes, the median stripe entire, the admedian stripes not quite reaching the præsutural furrow.
1985 Proc. Royal Soc. 226 189 When the odotophore is first protracted its laterally extended cartilagenous skeleton allows..22 admedian, radula teeth to penetrate the substrate.
2003 Z.-Q. Zhang Mites of Greenhouses vii. 128 The dorsal shield may have a median line, a pair of admedian lines and pair of submedian lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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