medial vs waist

medial

noun
  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

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

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. 

waist

noun
  • The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. 

  • That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle. 

  • A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. 

  • The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft. 

  • The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). 

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