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.
This is the midline. Medial means towards the midline, lateral means away from the midline. An example of these terms in use; the shoulder is lateral to the neck; the neck is medial to the shoulder. Anterior (ventral) refers to the âfrontâ, and posterior (dorsal) refers to the âbackâ. Putting this in context, the heart is posterior to the sternum because it lies behind it.