What's the difference between gibbose and gibbous?

Gibbose


Definition:

  • (a.) Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The changes in vertebral rotation and gibbosity are supplementary advantages of Armstrong's technique.
  • (2) Clinical features are in part explained by the delay with which patients report to the hospital for the first time so that 80 to 90 p. 100 of the patients suffer from severe lesions (which are in their destructive phase in 30 p. 100 of the cases), with associated-complications (gibbosity, abcess, 50 p. 100; fistulae, 2 to 6 p. 100; paraplegie 23 to 25 p. 100; multiplefoci, 4 to 13 p. 100).
  • (3) On the clinical field the sick seek advice at an advance stage of the disease with gibbosity (38.3%) and neurologic deficits (21.5%).

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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