Definition of Mediastinal

1. a. Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.

Definition of Mediastinal

1. Adjective. (medicine) Having to do with the mediastinum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mediastinal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Mediastinal

1. Of or pertaining to a mediastinum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediastinal

median vein of forearm
median vein of neck
medianly
medians
mediant
mediants
medianus
medias
mediasation
mediascape
mediascapes
mediaspeak
mediasphere
mediaspheres
mediastina
mediastinal (current term)
mediastinal arteries
mediastinal branches
mediastinal branches of internal thoracic artery
mediastinal branches of thoracic aorta
mediastinal cyst
mediastinal diseases
mediastinal emphysema
mediastinal fibrosis
mediastinal lipomatosis
mediastinal part of lung
mediastinal pleura
mediastinal pleurisy
mediastinal space
mediastinal surface of lung

Literary usage of Mediastinal

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The anterior mediastinal glands are placed in the loose areolar tissue of the ... The posterior mediastinal glands are situated in the areolar tissue in the ..."

2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1898)
"2 Bronchial and mediastinal glands. 1 Bronchial and mediastinal lymphatic glands and ... 4 Bronchial, mediastinal, and mesenteric glands and both lungs. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"That on the thoracic- surface communicates with the lymphatics of the costal and mediastinal parts of the pleura, and its efferents consist of three groups: ..."

4. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"mediastinal NEOPLASMS Clinical Pathology.—Sarcoma and carcinoma are the most important types of malignant tumors affecting the mediastinal spaces, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Among the most remarkable cases of the kind are those of "mediastinal ... in which there is a leukemic blood picture and in which the mediastinal tumor ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Occasionally, a mediastinal emphysema or a mediastinal pneumothorax can be ... (b) Varieties of mediastinal Tumors Among the masses originating in the ..."

7. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF mediastinal AFFECTIONS WS LEMON, MB IN few parts of the body is there a greater number of important structures confined in so ..."

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