Meanings
adjectivemesiodistal (not comparable)
- not comparabledentistryOf or relating to the mesial and distal surfaces of a tooth
However, Afrotarsius displays lower molars with much more acute cusps, a more protruding shelf-like paraconid, a metaconid opposite to the protoconid, a mesiodistal cristid obliqua, a strong labial cingulum, and a more distal entoconid.
1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530 - not comparablehuman sciencesIn the description of languages with a four-way distinction for demonstratives, refers to a demonstrative which indicates something near neither the speaker nor the addressee, but not too far off from either one.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*me
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
- Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
- Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
- Proto-Hellenic*métsos
- Ancient Greekμέσος (mésos)
- Englishmesio-
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*sth₂éh₁yeti
- Proto-Italic*staējō
- Proto-Italic*staēō
- Latinstō
- Latindistō
- Latindistāns
- Old Frenchdistant
- Middle Englishdistaunt
- Englishdistant
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishdistal
- Englishmesiodistal
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Cite this entry
APA
mesiodistal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesiodistal
MLA
“mesiodistal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesiodistal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mesiodistal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesiodistal.
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