Definition of "meridians" [meridians]

• Plural form of meridian. (noun)

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• "Practitioners of acupuncture and students in acupuncture schools discovered that this energy flows along pathways they refer to as meridians; each is connected to the physiological system and an internal organ."
• ""Well," I says, "I reckon maybe you've got a chance now to find out whereabouts this balloon is, because as like as not that is one of these lines here, that's on the map, that you call meridians of longitude, and we can drop down and look at its number, and --""
• "Qi flows through the body via channels called meridians."