What's the difference between crookbacked and gibbous?

Crookbacked


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Gibbous


Definition:

  • (a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
  • (a.) Hunched; hump-backed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as each condition is rare, the occurrence of both gibbous deformity due to Hurler's and diastematomyelia in the same child, makes it unlikely to be a chance association.
  • (2) Twenty-two patients with Pott's disease and symptoms of back pain, gibbous deformity, and neurological deficit underwent thoracotomy.

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