focal vs medial

focal

adj
  • Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus. 

  • Limited to a small area. 

noun
  • The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others. 

  • The central or most important element of something; a focal element. 

  • A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals. 

  • An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic. 

  • A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system. 

  • An exemplar of a concept. 

  • A major point of interest; an attraction. 

medial

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

How often have the words focal and medial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )