media

/ˈmi.di.ə/

UK: /ˈmɛ.di.ə/

MI · di · ə (3 syllables)

English Noun Top 2,210

American (Lessac) (medium)

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American (Amy) (medium)

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American (Ryan) (medium)

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Definition

The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.