Anatomical Terms of Location - TeachMeAnatomy Imagine a line in the sagittal plane, splitting the right and left halves evenly This is the midline Medial means towards the midline, lateral means away from the midline Examples: The eye is lateral to the nose The nose is medial to the ears The brachial artery lies medial to the biceps tendon
Medial - Wikipedia Medial (anatomy), term of location meaning 'towards the centre' Medial ligament (disambiguation), term used for various ligaments toward the midline of the human body