What's the difference between humpbacked and kyphotic?
Humpbacked
Definition:
(a.) Having a humped back.
Example Sentences:
(1) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(2) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
(3) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(4) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
(5) An increased food supply has recently been cited for a large increase in the number of humpback whales off Massachusetts.
(6) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(7) Season of invasion coincides with the period of migration of calico and humpback salmon which are additional hosts of Diphyllobothriidae.
(8) He notes the proposed project site is near the Santa Lucia Bank, an area “very heavily used” by blue, fin, sperm and humpback whales.
(9) Humpback whale-watching cruises depart daily from Dalvík, 10 miles south.
(10) He says there are stunning coastal walks, opportunities to see humpback whales and plenty of swimming holes.
(11) The critical period of limb development in southern minke whale was shown to be at a stage between that in the small sized species; Common Porpoise, Phocoena communis and Striped Dolphin, Prodelphinus caeruleoalbus, and in large one; Humpback Whale, Megaptera nodusa.
(12) This projection demonstrates the anatomy, allowing assessment of fractures, the humpback deformity, and the shape of the scaphoid after grafting.
(13) My best experience was swimming with humpback whales: their size is incredible and they have the most extraordinary song, it's beautiful and really rather haunting.
(14) Once on land, humpbacks took human form and did good, and evil.
(15) The 9.5m (28ft) carcass of the humpback had been spotted by members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) off Gravesend on Thursday, who had initially guessed it was a minke whale, but no further sightings were reported until the animal was found dead on Saturday.
(16) The spontaneous collapse of the two scaphoid fragments produced a dorsal angulation or "humpback" deformity that simulated the clinical situation of displaced scaphoid nonunions.
(17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(18) The comparisons also showed that the humpback whale and the gray whale were approximately equidistant from the blue whale and the fin whale (genus Balaenoptera).
(19) Observations of marked individuals suggest that major oceanic populations of humpback whales are divided into a number of distinct seasonal subpopulations which are not separated by obvious geographic barriers.
(20) Grey, minke and humpback whales as well as dolphins also visit the islands.
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.