interior vs medial

interior

adj
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner. 

  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland. 

noun
  • The set of all interior points of a set. 

  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts. 

  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure. 

medial

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

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

  • (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 interior and medial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )