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Definition of Median

1. Adjective. Relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values). "The median income for the year was $15,000"

2. Noun. The value below which 50% of the cases fall.

3. Adjective. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.

4. Adjective. Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle.

Definition of Median

1. a. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

2. n. A median line or point.

Definition of Median

1. Adjective. Relating to Media or Medes. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. ¹

3. Noun. a Mede ¹

4. Noun. The northwestern Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar. ¹

5. Noun. (context: anatomy now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

6. Noun. (statistics) The quantity or value at the midpoint of a set of values, such that the variable is equally likely to fall above or below it; the middle value of a discrete series arranged in magnitude (or the mean of the middle two terms when there is an even number of terms). (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

7. Noun. (American English) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹

8. Adjective. Situated in the middle; central, intermediate. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

9. Adjective. (anatomy botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

10. Adjective. (statistics) Having the median as its value. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Median

1. a central part [n -S]

Medical Definition of Median

1. Any value that divides the probability of a random variable in half, i.e. The probability of observing a value above the median and the probability of observing a value below the median are both less than or equal to one half. For a finite population or sample, the median is the middle value of an odd number of values (arranged in ascending order) or any value between the two middle values of an even number of values, in the latter case it is conventional to use the average of the two middle values. Origin: L. Medianus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Median

medial vastus muscle medial vein of lateral ventricle medial venule of retina medial vestibular nucleus medial wall of middle ear medial wall of orbit medial wall of tympanic cavity medialecithal medialis mediallionlike

medially medially deviated ureter medials medialuna mediamaking median (current term) median(a) median antebrachial vein median anterior maxillary cyst median aperture of the fourth ventricle

median arcuate ligament median artery median atlantoaxial joint median bar of Mercier median basilic vein median cephalic vein median cubital vein median effective dose median eminence median frontal sulcus

Literary usage of Median

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"median cephalic vein, the rein of the arm which connects the median and the cephalic ... median coverts, in ornith., those coverts of the secondaries which ..."

2. The Psychology of Childhood by Naomi Norsworthy, Mary Theodora Whitley (1918)
"In exercise i above there are 25 cases Counting in till the i3th case is reached, we see his score is C ; therefore the median score is C. If we have an ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"The first supposition is rendered improbable by the fact that the divided median nerve was of normal thickness. The second assumption has more in its favour ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"At the upper part of the floor of the 4th ventricle a longitudinal tract of nerve fibres, the fasciculus teres, ascends on each side of its median furrow ..."

5. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1922)
"The median, however, is an average which may be applied to written compositions in ... The reader will recall that the median is the middle item of a series ..."

6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"PRACTICAL COMPUTATION OF THE median. BY EW SCRIPTURE, Yale University. In the PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW for Jan., 1894, I called attention to the practical and ..."

7. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1864)
"The median NEUVE (fig. 288) has received its name from the course it takes along the middle ... No branches are given off from the median nerve in the arm. ..."

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