Chronic stress can occur in response to everday stressors that are ignored or poorly managed, as well as to exposure to traumatic events.
medial. [mÄâ²dÄÂ·Él]. Etymology: L, medius, middle. 1 pertaining to, situated in, or oriented toward the midline of the body. 2 pertaining to the tunica media, the middle layer of a blood vessel wall. Also mesial. adjective Toward the centre, middle, median, as of the body.
a sheet of pearly-white fibrous tissue that takes the place of a tendon in sheetlike muscles having a wide area of attachment. 1  Lateral. 2  situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, esp. in the region furthest from the median plane. The opposite of medial .