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Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.

See Half-moon.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

ording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

In a remedial manner.

Lying under the middle.

Above the middle.

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

ns . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

he mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

iosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) f, th, x (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic. By medicine, life may be prolonged. Shak.

Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.