mesially

mesially

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English mesial
English -ly
English mesially

    From mesial + -ly.

    Adverb

    mesially (comparative more mesially, superlative most mesially)

    1. Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
      • 1999, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, page 246:
        The second premolar has two roots, one located mesially and one distally under the crown

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