Gibbosity

Word GIBBOSITY
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What do we mean by gibbosity?

The condition of being gibbous. noun

A rounded hump or protuberance. noun

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; roundness or protuberance of outline; convexity. noun

A protuberance; a round or swelling prominence. Specifically noun

In botany, a swelling or protuberance at one side of an organ, usually near the base, as of a calyx. noun

In zoology, an irregular large protuberance, somewhat rounded, but not forming the segment of a sphere; a hump: as, the gibbosity of or on the back of a camel or zebu. noun

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness. noun

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings noun

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The word "gibbosity" in example sentences

Here is some further information from the creators of the project: The shape of site is transformed into the gibbosity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in those cases where the gibbosity is above the diaphragm, the ribs do not usually expand properly in width, but forward, and the chest becomes sharp-pointed and not broad, and they become affected with difficulty of breathing and hoarseness; for the cavities which inspire and expire the breath do not attain their proper capacity. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From this frame of body, such persons appear to have appear to have more prominent necks than persons in good health, and they generally have hard and unconcocted tubercles in the lungs, for the gibbosity and the distension are produced mostly by such tubercles, with which the neighboring nerves communicate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The vertebrae of the spine when contracted into a hump behind from disease, for the most part cannot be remedied, more especially when the gibbosity is above the attachment of the diaphragm to the spine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And when the gibbosity occurs in youth before the body has attained its full growth, in these cases the body does not usually grow along the spine, but the legs and the arms are fully developed, whilst the parts (about the back) are arrested in their development. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the gibbosity seizes persons who have already attained their full growth, it usually occasions a crisis of the then existing disease, but in the course of time some of them attack, as in the case of younger persons, to a greater or less degree; but, not withstanding, for the most part, all these diseases are less malignant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mullins 'Planet swelled in gibbosity, bright and blue-green under the clouds. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The mountain of the Amorites took its beginning from Cadesh-barnea, the southern border, of the land of Israel, -- and, by a hardened gibbosity, thrust forward itself into Judea beyond Hebron, the name only being changed into the "Hill-country of Judea." ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

"I do hope you'll be better to-morrow," she said, and she commiserated with Anne on all she had missed -- the garden, the stars, the scent of flowers, the meteorites through whose summer shower the earth was now passing, the rising moon and its gibbosity. ❋ Aldous Huxley (1928)

But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed ❋ James Joyce (1911)

Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Thus when a tree is the object of sight, a part of the retina resembling a flat branching figure is stimulated by various shades of colours; but it is by suggestion, that the gibbosity of the tree, and the moss, that fringes its trunk, appear before us. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

So if any one should say, "one may sit upon a horse safer than on a camel," my abstract idea of the two animals includes only an outline of the level back of the one, and the gibbosity on the back of the other. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

When the gibbosity is below the diaphragm, in some of these cases nephritic diseases and affections of the bladder supervene, but abscesses of a chronic nature, and difficult to cure, occur in the loins and groins, and neither of these carries off the gibbosity; and in these cases the hips are more emaciated than when the gibbosity is seated higher up; but the whole spine is more elongated in them than in those who have the gibbosity seated higher up, the hair of the pubes and chin is of slower growth and less developed, and they are less capable of generation than those who have the gibbosity higher up. ❋ Unknown (2007)

43 Those cases in which the gibbosity is near the neck, are less likely to be benefited by these succussions with the head downward, for the weight of the head, and tops of the shoulders, when allowed to hang down, is but small; and such cases are more likely to be made straight by succussion applied with the feet hanging down, since the inclination downward is greater in this way. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If people come here I can’t very well make myself presentable, with the gibbosity of this confounded bandage, but at least I needn’t give offense to decency. ❋ Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 (1938)

"The different species of the Ox kind may be readily distinguished from the Gayal by the following marks; the European and Indian oxen by the length of their tails, which reach to the false hoofs; the American Ox, by the gibbosity on its back; the _Bovis moschatus_, Caffer, and ❋ George Vasey (1857)

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