articulate vs medial

articulate

adj
  • Speaking in a clear and effective manner. 

  • Distinctly marked off. 

  • Clear; effective. 

  • Consisting of segments united by joints. 

noun
  • An animal of the subkingdom Articulata. 

verb
  • To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend. 

  • To make clear or effective. 

  • To explain; to put into words; to make something specific. 

  • To speak clearly; to enunciate. 

  • to form a joint or connect by joints 

  • to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc. 

medial

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

  • 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. 

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