median plane
Anatomy, Zoology, and Botany
noun
The plane that divides a body, organ, etc., into (roughly) symmetrical halves; the sagittal plane.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Knox (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist.
- Stirling, Sir James Fraser
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