What's the difference between gibbous and kyphotic?
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.
Kyphotic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Progressive kyphotic deformity is found only in children.
(2) Kyphotic deformity progressed to greater than 30 degrees before surgical intervention in these four cases.
(3) We emphasize, therefore, that neurological deficit caused by kyphotic deformity and instability secondary to extensive laminectomy for achondroplasia can be prevented by this procedure, and thus good results can be anticipated.
(4) Nonoperative treatment was successful in 95%; however, 14% later developed kyphotic deformities.
(5) By regression analyses of the maximum values of each rotation in each curve, the rotation of the apex vertebra was found to be generally of lesser magnitude than the rotation of the plane of maximum curvature of the spine and in an opposite sense in kyphotic curves.
(6) Of these, 56.5 per cent were scoliotic and 43.4 per cent were kyphotic.
(7) Kyphotic curves tend to progress after the adolescent growth spurt while scoliotic curves do not.
(8) Selected method of operative treatment is Harrington-Luck techniques in case of scoliosis prevalence and application of original endocorrector with associated influence at kyphotic component.
(9) The kyphotic angle increased an average of 10.6 degrees in the 14 patients whose preoperative angle was less than 25 degrees.
(10) The internal fixator has a great potential of correction in scoliotic and kyphotic deformities of the spine.
(11) With the posterolateral fusion method, correction of olisthesis or kyphotic deformity, if attained at all, was difficult to maintain.
(12) As the elastic modulus of the soft tissue composites (eg, end plates, ligaments, and facets) increased, a kyphotic deformity changed gradually from swan-neck deformity, to extreme kyphotic deformity with a large curvature, and finally to a straightening deformity.
(13) The techniques used and results obtained in the surgical treatment of the kyphotic deformities of fourteen patients with paraplegia and myelomeningocele are presented.
(14) The vertebral body height, kyphotic deformity and the displacement were corrected obviously.
(15) The average pre-operative kyphotic angulation of 56 degrees was reduced to 27 degrees postoperatively and 30 degrees at the latest follow-up (3 degrees loss of correction).
(16) This posture is characterized by a long, "C"-shaped kyphotic thoracolumbar spine, an extended cervical spine, a flattened lumbar spine, and a posteriorly tilted pelvis.
(17) In 3 cases with ankylosing spondylitis, the initial average kyphotic curve was 73.3 degrees, while the postoperative average curve was 28.3 degrees.
(18) Thus, the development of a kyphotic deformity is prevented.
(19) The angle of slipping (measurement of the kyphotic relationship of the fifth lumbar to the first sacral vertebra) was found to be as important a measurement as the percentage of slipping in measuring instability and progression of slipping.
(20) The initial preoperative kyphotic angle was corrected by a mean of 4.5 and 6.9 degrees respectively.