Situated in or pertaining to the middle; intermediate. The medial position of the building made it easily accessible from all sides of the campus.
Relating to the median plane of the body or a structure; nearer to the middle or center. The medial side of the knee is often more prone to injury in athletes.
Phonetics/Linguistics: Occurring in the middle of a word or morpheme. The medial consonant in "banana" is the letter "n".