medial vs vertical

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. 

vertical

adj
  • Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously. 

  • In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy. 

  • Of or pertaining to vertical markets. 

  • In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x. 

  • Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery. 

  • Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal. 

noun
  • A vertical market. 

  • An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds. 

  • A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular. 

  • A vertical component of a structure. 

  • A vertex or zenith. 

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