Mesial

What do we mean by mesial?

Of, in, near, or toward the middle. adjective

Situated toward the middle of the front of the jaw along the curve of the dental arch. adjective

Pertaining to the middle; being in the middle; in zoology, pertaining to or on the middle line or plane of the body; median. Also mesian

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. adjective

See Meson. adjective

Pertaining to the middle line of the body adjective

Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw. adjective

Being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body adjective

Pertaining to the midline of the body.

Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.

Words that are spelled similarly to mesial:
mesial, menial, medial, mescal, mesal, musial, mesiad, mesia, esial, mesias.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mesial:
lingual, premolar, buccal, incisor, maxillary, distal, mandibular, midline, cusp, incisors, sclerosis, lobe, epilepsy, temporal, molar, tipping, contour, tooth, forewing, thorax, underside, abdomen, groove, stripe, teeth, cortex, mitochondrial, patches, lateral, outline, spine, basal, rows, marginal, root, aspect, angle, pattern, slightly, toward, face, visible, legs, surface, segment, brain, height, yellow, ridge, grey, edge, function, crown, portion, permanent, wing, view, side, length, brown, loss, central, black, base, line, sometimes, lower, similar.

Words that rhyme with mesial:
breezy hill, easy hill.

Adjectives that are often used to describe mesial:
more, slight, lower, small, entire, prominent, large, right, little, most, left, lingual, labial, second, deep, buccal, unilaterally, broad, extreme, bilaterally, smaller, adjacent, straight, vertical, alveolar, occlusal, marked, elevated, present, short, low, deepened, distinct, upper, normal, interdental, wide, faint, triangular, tuberculous, distal, facial, central, simple, interproximal, leaky, periodontal, mesiolingual, mandibular, permanent, flat, orthodontic, rounded, angular, mandible, osteotomy, corresponding, posterior, physiologic, available, extra, infrabony, osseous, separate, shallow, fractured, homologous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mesial:
surface, aspect, root, ridge, line, side, sclerosis, plane, portion, drift, movement, view, groove, epilepsy, border, wall, lobe, section, fossa, structures, half, area, margin, surfaces, angle, migration, part, cortex, inclination, sinus, fillet, cusp, direction, edge, end, pit, slope, region, outline, tipping, process, face, contact, temporal, canals, shift, canal, ridges, occlusion, step, fold, rest, incline, displacement, roots, cusps, fig, incision, aspects, depression, lobes, rotation, band, lesions, cavity, seizures, corner, third, septum, frontal, regions, caries, relation, nematophore, arm, concavity, curvature, horn, fossae, crest, facet, cavities, nucleus, views, origin, apex, tooth, lesion, furcation, crura, component, resection, segment.

Words that sound like mesial:
mesial, mariel, mezcal, marial, mesel, muzzle, mazel, mizzle, marielle, msil, mizell, msea, misil, measle, mescal, musil, musial, mazal, messel, mesl, meazel, mazia, mozelle, mizelle, narial, moseying, muscle, missile, missle, mussel, missel, mistle, missal, missil, moselle, miscall, mistel, misdeal, mysia, mistal, muskel, meskill, mousle, mistell, meshell, mess hall, mehle, metal, medal, meddle, mettle, nuzzle, menial, meryl, medel, medial, merrill, methyl, mial, meza, medle, menzel, merrell, merel, masl, mezza, mosul, meisel, mosel, mechelle, maskell, marea, memel, megal, maisel, moskal, monial, meckel, methal, mesal, mesua, medill, mossel, mesma, mascal, mensual, meso-, misspell, mispell, micelle, mrl, marrying, michel, mitchel, michal, michell, asiel, mishel, michl, choiseul.